• Combination in Camponotus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 246.
• Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis): Forel, 1912j: 90.
• Combination in Camponotus (Hypercolobopsis): Emery, 1920b: 260; Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 24.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 246; Forel, 1895b: 105; Emery, 1896j: 375 (in list); Emery, 1925d: 160; Borgmeier, 1927c: 155; Wheeler, 1942: 262; Kempf, 1960f: 460 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 43.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus paradoxus janitor: Kempf, 1960f: 460; Kempf, 1968b: 414; Kempf, 1972b: 43; Bolton, 1995b: 116.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus paradoxus janitor Forel, 1908

Obsolete combinations

• Colobopsis paradoxa

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Mackay, W. P.; MacKay, E. E. 2018. Revision of the New World cork-headed ants of the genus Colobopsis. Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 279 pp.
• Mayr, G. 1866b. Diagnosen neuer und wenig gekannter Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 16:885-908. PDF
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