• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmentoma): Emery, 1925d: 121.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus piceus: Radchenko, 1997c: 707.
• Raised to species: Borowiec & Salata, 2014b: 502.

Citations

• Borowiec, L.; Salata, S. 2014b. Redescription of Camponotus nitidescens Forel, 1889, new status and notes on ants from Kefalonia, Greece (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (3):499-517. PDF
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• Radchenko, A. G. 1997c. Review of ants of the subgenus Myrmentoma genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Asian Palearctic. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 76:703-711.
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