• Mann, 1920b: 436 (s.); MacKay, 2025: 439 (s.)
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmeurynota): Forel, 1914a: 274.
• Combination in Camponotus (Colobopsis): Mann, 1920b: 436.
• Combination in Camponotus (Manniella): Wheeler, 1921a: 19; Mackay & MacKay, 2018: 25.
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmaphaenus): MacKay, 2025: 25 (by implication), 435.
• Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 5; Mayr, 1863a: 459; Dalla Torre, 1893: 253; Emery, 1896j: 377 (in list); Wheeler, 1905c: 135; Wheeler, 1913b: 504; Mann, 1920b: 436; Emery, 1925d: 159; Aguayo, 1932: 226; Kempf, 1972b: 43; Alayo, 1974: 27 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 125; McArthur, 2012: 126, 219; MacKay, 2025: 435 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus sphaericus cardini: MacKay, 2025: 435.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus sphaericus sphaeralis: MacKay, 2025: 435.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus sphaericus cardini Mann, 1920
• Camponotus sphaericus sphaeralis Roger, 1863
  Obsolete combination(s): Camponotus sphaeralis

Citations

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• Alayo, P. 1974. Introducción al estudio de los Himenópteros de Cuba. Superfamilia Formicoidea. Serie Biológica. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba 53:1-58. PDF
• 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. 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
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• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• MacKay, W. P. 2025. New World Camponotus. Volume 2: Subgenus Myrmaphaenus, Part 1. Species complexes coruscus, cressoni, femoratus, frontalis, heathi, mina, novogranadensis and sphaericus. Saarbrücken: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 513 pp. PDF
• Mackay, W. P.; MacKay, E. E. 2018. Revision of the New World cork-headed ants of the genus Colobopsis. Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 279 pp. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1920b. Additions to the ant fauna of the West Indies and Central America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42:403-439. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• McArthur, A. J. 2012. A guide to Colobopsis ants of the world. Adelaide: South Australian Museum, 234 pp.
• Roger, J. 1863a. Die neu aufgeführten Gattungen und Arten meines Formiciden-Verzeichnisses nebst Ergänzung einiger früher gegebenen Beschreibungen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7:131-214. PDF
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