• Status as species: Santschi, 1937h: 380.
• Subspecies of Camponotus castaneus Latreille, 1802a: Smith, 1951c: 839.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus americanus: Creighton, 1950a: 365; Smith, 1958c: 142; Smith, 1979: 1425; Bolton, 1995b: 121; Mackay, 2019: 163.

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus castaneus rufinasis

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Mackay, W.P. 2019. New World carpenter ants of the hyperdiverse genus Camponotus. Volume 1: Introduction, Keys to the subgenera and species complexes and the subgenus Camponotus. Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 412 pp.
• Santschi, F. 1936b. Contribution à l'étude des fourmis de l'Amérique du Sud. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 6:196-218. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1937h. Fourmis du Japon et de Formose. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 77:361-388. PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF