• [First available use of Camponotus maculatus samius laconicus Emery, 1908; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 100
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1911f: 359.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus festai: Tohmé & Tohmé, 2014: 138 (error).
• Subspecies of Camponotus samius: Emery, 1925d: 100.
• Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 58; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 284 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 107; Petrov, 2006: 109 (in key); Legakis, 2011: 31; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 477; Borowiec, 2014: 35; Lebas et al., 2016: 154; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 44; Salata et al., 2020: 554 (diagnosis).

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus samius laconicus

Citations

• Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987a. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:51-62. PDF
• Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987b. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) with a key to the worker caste. II. Key to the worker caste, including the European species without the Iberian. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 60:261-293. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2012. Ants of Greece – checklist, comments and new faunistic data (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 23 (4):461-563. PDF
• Emery, C. 1920d. Studi sui Camponotus. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 52:3-48. 10.5281/zenodo.25547 PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1911f. Fourmis nouvelles ou intéressantes. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 47:331-400. PDF
• Lebas, C.; Galkowski, C.; Blatrix, R.; Wegnez, P. 2016. Guide Delachaux: Fourmis d’Europe occidentale. Luçon: Delachaux et Niestlé, 415 pp.
• Legakis, A. 2011. Annotated list of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Greece. Hellenic Zoological Archives 7:1-55. PDF
• Petrov, I. 2006. The ants of Serbia and Montenegro. [In Serbian.]. Posebna Izdanja. Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnosti 656:1-136. PDF
• Salata, S.; Borowiec, L. 2018c. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on Greek ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 27 (008):1-51. 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF
• Salata, S.; Khalili-Moghadam, A.; Borowiec, L. 2020. Review of the Camponotus samius complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Turano-Balkan region, with the description of a new species from Iran. Zootaxa 4763:545-562. 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.4.5 PDF
• Tohmé, G.; Tohmé, H. 2014. Nouvelle liste des espèces de fourmis du Liban (Hymenoptera, Formicoidea). Lebanese Science Journal 15 (1):133-141. PDF