• Status as species: Smith, 1871a: 309; Dalla Torre, 1893: 206; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 201 (error).
• Junior synonym of Camponotus sericeus: Emery, 1893h: 254; Bolton, 1995b: 119.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica pyrrhocephala

Citations

• 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
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1893h. Voyage de M. E. Simon à l'île de Ceylan (janvier-février 1892). Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62:239-258. PDF
• Motschoulsky, V. de 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'île Ceylan (suite). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 36(3):1-153.
• Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF