• Replacement name for Camponotus ruficeps (Smith, 1857). [Junior primary homonym of Camponotus ruficeps (Fabricius, 1804).]
• Forel, 1886h: 171 (q.)
• Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis): Chapman & Capco, 1951: 224.
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmotarsus): Emery, 1925d: 135; Bolton, 1995b: 131.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus misturus: Emery, 1925d: 135.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1867a: 37 (redescription); Mayr, 1879: 646; Forel, 1886h: 171; Mayr, 1886c: 354; Dalla Torre, 1893: 232; Emery, 1896j: 374 (in list); Emery, 1900: 702; Forel, 1909b: 57; Wheeler, 1919f: 118; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 443; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 224; Bolton, 1995b: 102; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 37.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus distinguendus (Smith, 1871): Smith, 1871a: 305 (unnecessary (second) replacement name for Camponotus ruficeps (Smith, 1857)).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus smithi Donisthorpe, 1932 (unnecessary third replacement name for Camponotus ruficeps (Smith, 1857)): Bolton, 1995b: 102.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus distinguendus (Smith, 1871)
  Obsolete combination(s): Formica distinguenda
• Camponotus smithi Donisthorpe, 1932

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. 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. 1900. Formiche raccolte da Elio Modigliani in Sumatra, Engano e Mentawei. Dummy reference. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 40[=(2)20]:661-722.
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1886h. Études myrmécologiques en 1886. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 30:131-215. PDF
• Forel, A. 1909b. Fourmis du Musée de Bruxelles. Fourmis de Benguela récoltées par M. Creighton Wellman, et fourmis du Congo récoltées par MM. Luja, Kohl et Laurent. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 53:51-73. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1867a. Adnotationes in monographiam formicidarum Indo-Neerlandicarum. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 10:33-117. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1879. Beiträge zur Ameisen-Fauna Asiens. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 28:645-686. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1886c. Notizen über die Formiciden-Sammlung des British Museum in London. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 36:353-368. PDF
• Pfeiffer, M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58. PDF
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• Wheeler, W. M. 1919f. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147. PDF