• Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 100.
• Subspecies of Camponotus maculatus: Emery, 1893m: 241 (footnote), 251; Emery, 1896j: 370 (in list); Emery, 1905g: 35; Forel, 1906c: 187; Emery, 1908a: 192; Forel, 1911f: 359; Emery, 1914c: 159; Emery, 1915f: 2; Stitz, 1917: 351; Hamann & Klemm, 1976: 677 (anachronism).
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 251; Emery, 1920d: 6, 10 (in key); Emery, 1925d: 100; Finzi, 1930d: 318; Menozzi, 1936b: 300; Aktaç, 1977: 125; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 284 (in key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 219; Collingwood, 1993b: 195; Bolton, 1995b: 122; Radchenko, 1996e: 1200 (in key); Radchenko, 1997d: 809; Petrov, 2006: 109 (in key); Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010: 46; Legakis, 2011: 32; Karaman et al., 2011: 191; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 481; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 8; Karaman & Aktaç, 2013: 53 (in key); Borowiec, 2014: 41; Lebas et al., 2016: 154; Borowiec & Salata, 2018a: 5; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 44; Salata et al., 2020: 554 (diagnosis).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus samius spagnolinii: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 59; Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 219; Bolton, 1995b: 122; Radchenko, 1997d: 809; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 8; Salata et al., 2020: 554.
• Material of the unavailable name Camponotus maculatus samius bosphoricus referred here by Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 219; Bolton, 1995b: 122; Radchenko, 1997d: 809; Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 8; Salata et al., 2020: 554.
• Material of the unavailable name Camponotus rubripes cognatus cognatopilicornis referred here by Radchenko, 1997d: 809; Salata et al., 2020: 554.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus samius spagnolinii Emery, 1920

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus maculatus samius
• Camponotus rubripes samius

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