• [First available use of Camponotus herculeanus vagus yessensis Teranishi, 1940; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Combination in Camponotus (Camponotus): Azuma, 1953: 5; Azuma, 1977a: 116; Onoyama, 1980a: 200; Terayama, 1999b: 29 (in key); Imai et al., 2003: 39.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Morisita, 1941: 93; Azuma, 1951: 88.
• Status as species: Azuma, 1953: 5; Azuma, 1977a: 116; Onoyama, 1980a: 200; Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 172; Morisita et al., 1991: 42; Bolton, 1995b: 130; Radchenko, 1996e: 1202 (in key); Radchenko, 1997b: 558; Terayama, 1999b: 29 (in key); Imai et al., 2003: 39.

Citations

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• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Imai, H. T.; Kihara, A.; Kondoh, M.; Kubota, M.; Kuribayashi, S.; Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K.; Taylor, R. W.; Terayama, M.; Tsukii, Y.; Yoshimura, M.; Ugawa, Y. 2003. Ants of Japan. Tokyo: Gakken, 224 pp. PDF
• Kupyanskaya, A. N. 1990a. Ants of the Far Eastern USSR. [In Russian.]. Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 258 pp.
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• Onoyama, K. 1980a. An introduction to the ant fauna of Japan, with a check list (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Kontyû 48:193-212. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1996e. A key to the ant genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Palearctic Asia. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 75:1195-1203.
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• Yasumatsu, K.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1951. Revisional notes on Camponotus herculeanus Linné and close relatives in Palearctic regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University 10:29-44. PDF