• Combination in Camponotus (Pseudocolobopsis): Emery, 1925d: 158.
• Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Kempf, 1972b: 73.
• Subspecies of Camponotus ustus: Emery, 1925d: 158; Kempf, 1972b: 73; Bolton, 1995b: 86.
• Status as species: Snelling & Torres, 1998: 4 (in text).

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus ustus arhuacus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1902b. Quatre notices myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46:170-182. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Snelling, R. R.; Torres, J. A. 1998. Camponotus ustus Forel and two similar new species from Puerto Rico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 469:1-10. PDF