• [Misspelled as noveboracensis by Wheeler, 1910g: 340; Creighton, 1950a: 369; Mackay, 2019: 277, and many others.]
• Wheeler, 1910g: 340 (s.w.q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953e: 182 (l.)
• Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 6.
• Combination in Camponotus (Camponotus): Emery, 1925d: 72.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1900c: 47; Wheeler, 1906g: 23; Wheeler, 1908i: 625; Wheeler, 1910g: 340; Wheeler, 1910a: 571; Wheeler, 1916r: 601; Wheeler, 1917a: 557; Wheeler, 1917c: 27; Wheeler, 1917k: 466; Cole, 1936a: 39; Wing, 1939: 163; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 103; Cole, 1942: 388; Smith, 1951c: 839.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus herculeanus: Mayr, 1863a: 399; Forel, 1874: 96 (in list); Emery & Forel, 1879: 447; Emery & Forel, 1879: 447.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus pennsylvanicus: Mayr, 1886d: 420; Dalla Torre, 1893: 247; Emery, 1896j: 372 (in list).
• Subspecies of Camponotus ligniperda: Forel, 1899h: 130.
• Subspecies of Camponotus herculeanus: Emery, 1925d: 72; Buren, 1944a: 293; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944: 250; Buren, 1944a: 293.
• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 6; Creighton, 1950a: 369; Smith, 1958c: 142; Smith, 1967a: 366; Francoeur, 1975: 264; Francoeur, 1977b: 207; Yensen et al., 1977: 184; Smith, 1979: 1426; Allred, 1982: 456; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 60 (in key); DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 146; Wheeler et al., 1994: 305; Bolton, 1995b: 114; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 298; Coovert, 2005: 167; Hansen & Klotz, 2005: 84; Ellison et al., 2012: 123; Mackay, 2019: 277 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus ligniperda pictus Forel, 1886h: Forel, 1899b: 130; Wheeler, 1910g: 340; Wheeler, 1917c: 27; Creighton, 1950a: 369; Smith, 1951c: 839; Smith, 1979: 1427; Bolton, 1995b: 114; Mackay, 2019: 278.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus herculeanus rubens: Creighton, 1950a: 370; Smith, 1979: 1427; Bolton, 1995b: 114; Mackay, 2019: 278.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus herculeanus rubens Emery, 1925
• Camponotus ligniperda pictus Forel, 1886

Obsolete combinations

• Formica novaeboracensis

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