• Replacement name for Camponotus nitidus Norton, 1868c. [Junior secondary homonym of Camponotus nitidus Lowne, 1865a.]
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmentoma): Emery, 1925d: 118.
• Combination in Lathidris: Ward et al., 2025: 662.
• Subspecies of Camponotus montivagus: Emery, 1896j: 375 (in list); Emery, 1925d: 118; Kempf, 1972b: 47; Bolton, 1995b: 120.
• Status as species: Mackay & MacKay, 1997b: 331 (redescription); Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 256; Ward et al., 2025: 662.
• Senior synonym of Lathidris nupera: Ward et al., 2025: 662.

Junior synonyms

• Lathidris nupera (Wheeler, 1914)
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus nitidus nuperus, Camponotus nuperus

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus montivagus rectithorax
• Camponotus rectithorax

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Branstetter, M. G.; Sáenz, L. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala. Pp. 221-268 in: Cano, E. B.; Schuster, J. C. (eds.) 2012. Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. Guatemala: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, iv + 328 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1896j. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (5)5:363-382 [pagination of separate: 761-780]. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895a. Nouvelles fourmis de diverses provenances, surtout d'Australie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:41-49. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Mackay, W. P.; MacKay, E. E. 1997b. A revision of the Neotropical ants of the montivagus species complex, genus Camponotus, subgenus Myrmentoma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 30:319-334. PDF
• Ward, P. S.; Fisher, B. L.; Wernegreen, J. J.; Blaimer, B. B. 2025. Evolutionary history, novel lineages and symbiont coevolution in the ant tribe Camponotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 50 (3):646-676. [online early] 10.1111/syen.12678 PDF