• Status as species: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1957: 50; Onoyama, 1980a: 200; Morisita et al., 1991: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 103; Radchenko, 1997b: 557; Terayama, 1999b: 29 (in key); Imai et al., 2003: 34.

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus obscuripes hemichlaena

Citations

• 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
• Morisita, M.; Kubota, M.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Yamauchi, K.; Sonobe, R.; Kondoh, M.; Imai, H. T. 1991. A guide for the identification of Japanese ants. II. Dolichoderinae and Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Japanese.]. Tokyo: Myrmecological Society of Japan, 56 pp.
• 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. 1997b. Review of ants of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Palearctic. The subgenus Camponotus s. str. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 76:554-564. PDF
• Terayama, M. 1999b. The ant genus Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Japan. Memoirs of the Myrmecological Society of Japan 1:25-48. PDF
• 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
• Yasumatsu, K.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1957. A second look at the ants of the Camponotus herculeanus group in eastern Asia. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University 11:45-51. PDF