• Wheeler, 1910g: 340 (s.w.q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953e: 182 (l.)
• Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 6.
• Combination in Camponotus (Camponotus): Emery, 1925d: 72.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus pennsylvanicus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 247; Emery, 1896j: 372
• Revived from synonymy as subspecies of Camponotus ligniperda: Forel, 1899h: 130
• Subspecies of Camponotus herculeanus: Emery, 1925d: 72; Buren, 1944a: 293
• Revived status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 369
• Senior synonym of †Camponotus pictus: Forel, 1899h: 130.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus herculeanus rubens: Creighton, 1950a: 370.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus herculeanus rubens Emery, 1925
• Camponotus ligniperda pictus Forel, 1886

Obsolete combinations

• Formica novaeboracensis

Citations

• Buren, W. F. 1944a. A list of Iowa ants. Iowa State College Journal of Science 18:277-312. PDF
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1896j. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (5)5:363-382 [pagination of separate: 761-780]. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Fitch, A. 1855 ("1854"). Report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects of the State of New York. Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society 14:705-880. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899h. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:105-136. PDF
• Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1953e. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae. Part II. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 46:175-217. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1910g. The North American ants of the genus Camponotus Mayr. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20:295-354. PDF