• [Misspelled as nawae by Azuma, 1951: 89; Azuma, 1953: 5.]
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmamblys): Emery, 1925d: 138.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1925d: 138; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 232.
• Subspecies of Camponotus caryae: Wheeler, 1917c: 29; Onoyama, 1980a: 201.
• Subspecies of Camponotus vitiosus: Azuma, 1951: 89; Azuma, 1953: 5.
• Status as species: Terayama & Satoh, 1990a: 405; Morisita et al., 1991: 43; Bolton, 1995b: 113; Radchenko, 1997d: 812; Terayama, 1999b: 30 (in key); Imai et al., 2003: 36; McArthur, 2012: 196.

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus fallax nawai

Citations

• Azuma, M. 1951. On the myrmecological-fauna of Osaka Prefecture, Japan with description of new species (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). [In Japanese and English.]. Hyogo Biology 1:86-90. PDF
• Azuma, M. 1953. On the myrmecological fauna of Mt. Rokko, Hyogo Prefecture. [In Japanese.]. Warera 2:1-7. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• 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
• Ito, T. 1914a. Formicidarum japonicarum species novae vel minus cognitae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 58:40-45. PDF
• McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
• 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. 1997d. Review of ants of the subgenera Tanaemyrmex, Colobopsis, Myrmamblis, Myrmosericus, Orthonotomyrmex and Paramyrmamblis of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Asian Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 76:806-815.
• Terayama, M. 1999b. The ant genus Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Japan. Memoirs of the Myrmecological Society of Japan 1:25-48. PDF
• Terayama, M.; Satoh, T. 1990a. A new species of the genus Camponotus from Japan, with notes on two known forms of the subgenus Myrmamblys (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Japanese Journal of Entomology 58:405-414. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1917c. The North American ants described by Asa Fitch. Psyche (Cambridge) 24:26-29. PDF