• Combination in Camponotus: Emery, 1921a: 25.
• Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 95.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 418; Dalla Torre, 1893: 203; Emery, 1925d: 95; Wheeler, 1935g: 40; Bolton, 1995b: 116; Sarnat et al., 2013: 55.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica pallens

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1921a. Specific names repeated in the Linnean genus Formica. Psyche (Cambridge) 28:24-26. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Le Guillou, E. J. F. 1842 ("1841"). Catalogue raisonné des insectes hyménoptères recueillis dans le voyage de circumnavigation des corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 10:311-324. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Sarnat, E. M.; Blanchard, B.; Guénard, B.; Fasi, J.; Economo, E. P. 2013. Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island. ZooKeys 257:47-88. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.