• [First available use of Camponotus rubripes r. maculatus var. hova Forel, 1886h: 150 (s.w.q.) MADAGASCAR; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.].
• Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 85.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1907i: 89.
• Subspecies of Camponotus maculatus: Emery, in Dalla Torre, 1893: 241 (footnote); Emery, 1895g: 337; Emery, 1896j: 370 (in list); Forel, 1897d: 200; Emery, 1898a: 225; Forel, 1907h: 14; Wheeler, 1922: 1040.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 235; Emery, 1920d: 5, 9 (in key); Emery, 1925d: 85; Collingwood, 1985: 280; Bolton, 1995b: 104; Dorow, 1996a: 86; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 373; Collingwood et al., 2004: 489; Borowiec, 2014: 33 (see note in bibliography); Sharaf et al., 2017: 9.
• Current subspecies: nominal plus C. h. becki, C. h. boivini, C. h. cemeryi, C. h. fairmairei, C. h. fulvus, C. h. hovahovoides, C. h. hovoides, C. h. mixtellus, C. h. obscuratus, C. h. pictiventris, C. h. radamae.

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus maculatus hova

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