• Lectotype designation: MacKay, 2025: 285 (invalid).
• Creighton, 1965b: 6 (w.q.m.); MacKay, 2025: 284 (w.q.), 285 (m.)
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmobrachys): Forel, 1914a: 270.
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus): MacKay, 2025: 279.
• Subspecies of Camponotus senex: Emery, 1896j: 377 (in list).
• Status as species: Cresson, 1887: 255; Dalla Torre, 1893: 243; Emery, 1893k: 681; Forel, 1899b: 151; Forel, 1901d: 136; Wheeler, 1910g: 346; Wheeler, 1910a: 572; Wheeler, 1917a: 562; Emery, 1925d: 164; Creighton, 1950a: 399; Creighton, 1965b: 5 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 52; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Smith, 1979: 1434; Bolton, 1995b: 111; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 294; MacKay, 2025: 279 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus erythropus: Emery, 1895d: 336; Emery, 1896j: 377; Forel, 1899b: 151; Kempf, 1972b: 52; Smith, 1979: 1434; Bolton, 1995b: 111; MacKay, 2025: 279.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus phytophilus: MacKay, 2025: 279.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus mina zuni: Creighton, 1965b: 3; Smith, 1979: 1434; Bolton, 1995b: 111; MacKay, 2025: 279.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus erythropus Pergande, 1893
• Camponotus mina zuni Wheeler, 1910
• Camponotus phytophilus Wheeler, 1934

Citations

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