• Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 2.
• Combination in Camponotus (Camponotus): Forel, 1914a: 266.
• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 2; Dalla Torre, 1893: 237; Forel, 1914a: 266 (error).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus vividus: Emery, 1896j: 373.
• [Note: Emery gives Camponotus laboriosa as senior synonym, but Camponotus vividus has priority.]
• Junior synonym of Camponotus vividus: Mayr, 1863a: 422; Emery, 1898a: 227; Wheeler, 1922: 975; Emery, 1925d: 142; Santschi, 1926a: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 107.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica laboriosa

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1896j. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (5)5:363-382 [pagination of separate: 761-780]. PDF
• Emery, C. 1898a. Aggiunte e correzioni al saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrachis [sic] e affini. Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (n.s.)2:225-231. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1914a. Le genre Camponotus Mayr et les genres voisins. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 22:257-276. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1926a. Trois notes myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 95:13-28. PDF
• Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.