• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmotemnus): Emery, 1920b: 258.
• Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis): Emery, 1925d: 148.
• Combination in Colobopsis: Ward et al., 2016: 350.
• Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 148; Wheeler, 1935g: 42; Bolton, 1995b: 93; McArthur & Shattuck, 2001: 30 (redescription); McArthur, 2007b: 304; McArthur, 2012: 22; McArthur, 2014: 42, 205.

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus conithorax

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1914f. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437. PDF
• Emery, C. 1920b. Le genre Camponotus Mayr. Nouvel essai de la subdivision en sous-genres. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 8:229-260. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• McArthur, A. J. 2007b. A key to Camponotus Mayr of Australia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80:290-351. PDF
• McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
• McArthur, A. J. 2014. A guide to Camponotus ants of Australia. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 185 pp.
• McArthur, A. J.; Shattuck, S. O. 2001. A taxonomic revision of the Camponotus macrocephalus species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 125:25-43. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B.; Fisher, B. L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072:343-357. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.