• Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 2.
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmoturba): Forel, 1914a: 267.
• Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 90.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 416; Roger, 1863b: 2; Dalla Torre, 1893: 237.
• Subspecies of Camponotus sylvaticus: Mayr, 1886c: 355.
• Subspecies of Camponotus maculatus: Emery, 1895i: 46; Emery, 1896j: 370 (in list); Emery, 1920d: 5; Arnold, 1922: 626; Wheeler, 1922: 955; Emery, 1925d: 89.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus maculatus: Baroni Urbani, 1972: 127; Bolton, 1995b: 107.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica lacteipennis

Citations

• Arnold, G. 1922. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part V. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:579-674. PDF
• Baroni Urbani, C. 1972. Studi sui Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 82:122-135. PDF
• 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. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. 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. 1920d. Studi sui Camponotus. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 52:3-48. 10.5281/zenodo.25547 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
• Mayr, G. 1886c. Notizen über die Formiciden-Sammlung des British Museum in London. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 36:353-368. PDF
• Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. 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.