• Lectotype designation: Mackay & MacKay, 1997b: 332 (redundant).
• Lectotype designation: Snelling, 2000: 608.
• [Formica nitida Norton, 1868a: 60. Nomen nudum.]
• [Junior secondary homonym of Camponotus nitidus Lowne, 1865a.]
• Status as species: Forel, 1879a: 82; Forel, 1885a: 347; Dalla Torre, 1893: 245; Forel, 1899b: 154; Wheeler, 1914c: 58.
• Replacement name: Camponotus rectithorax Forel, 1895a.

Citations

• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Forel, A. 1879a. Études myrmécologiques en 1879 (deuxième partie [1re partie en 1878]). Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 16:53-128. PDF
• Forel, A. 1885a ("1884"). Études myrmécologiques en 1884 avec une description des organes sensoriels des antennes. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 20:316-380. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895a. Nouvelles fourmis de diverses provenances, surtout d'Australie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:41-49. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
• Mackay, W. P.; MacKay, E. E. 1997b. A revision of the Neotropical ants of the montivagus species complex, genus Camponotus, subgenus Myrmentoma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 30:319-334. PDF
• Norton, E. 1868a. Notes on Mexican ants. American Naturalist 2:57-72. PDF
• Norton, E. 1868c. Description of Mexican ants noticed in the American Naturalist, April, 1868. Proceedings of the Essex Institute (Communications) 6:1-10. PDF
• Snelling, R. R. 2000. A review of the Camponotus montivagus complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 36:599-611. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1914c. Ants collected by W. M. Mann in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 22:37-61. PDF