• [Date of publication 20.vi.1895.].
• Bingham, 1903: 370 (q.).
• Combination in Camponotus (Orthonotomyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 125.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus pseudolus (unnecessary replacement name as this Camponotus mendax is senior to that noted below: Bolton, 1995b: 111).
• Raised to species: Bingham, 1903: 370.
• Current subspecies: nominal plus C. m. integer.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus pseudolus Forel, 1907

Citations

• Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. PDF
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• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1895f. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part V. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 9:453-472. PDF
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