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

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus kiesenwetteri nitidescens

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
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Forel, A. 1889 ("1888"). Ameisen aus den Sporaden, den Cykladen und Griechenland, gesammelt 1887 von Herrn von Oertzen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 32:255-265. PDF
• 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.