• Status as species: Lund, 1831b: 103.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus rufipes: Dalla Torre, 1893: 250; Forel, 1895b: 104; Emery, 1925d: 109; Hashmi, 1973b: 52; Bolton, 1995b: 111.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica merdicola

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. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
• Hashmi, A. A. 1973b. A revision of the Neotropical ant subgenus Myrmothrix of genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 16:1-140.
• Lund, P. W. 1831a. Lettre sur les habitudes de quelques fourmis du Brésil, adressée à M. Audouin. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 23:113-138. PDF
• Lund, P. W. 1831b. Ueber die Lebensweise einiger brasilianischer Ameisen. Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde 32:97-106.