• Replacement name for Camponotus japonicus cruentata Emery, 1925d. [Junior secondary homonym of Camponotus cruentatus Latreille, 1802a.]
• [Note: Camponotus japonicus cruentata Emery, 1925d marks the first available use of Camponotus herculeanus japonicus cruentata Karavaiev, 1912b, unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Karavaiev, 1929d: 211.
• Subspecies of Camponotus japonicus: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 221.
• Junior synonym of Camponotus japonicus: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951: 37.
• Status as species: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1957: 49 (in text); Collingwood, 1976a: 307; Collingwood, 1981: 29; Bolton, 1995b: 87; Radchenko, 1996e: 1202 (in key); Radchenko, 1997b: 555; Radchenko, 2005b: 157; Ran & Zhou, 2011: 66.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus herculeanus jeholensis: Radchenko, 1997b: 555; Radchenko, 2005b: 157.
• Material of the unavailable name Camponotus herculeanus herculeanus koreanus referred here by Radchenko, 1997b: 555; Radchenko, 2005b: 157.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus herculeanus jeholensis Teranishi, 1936

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus japonicus atrox

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
• Collingwood, C. A. 1976a. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from North Korea. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 68:295-309. PDF
• Collingwood, C. A. 1981. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Korea, 2. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 42[34]:25-30. PDF
• Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1929d. Myrmekologische Fragmente. II. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu 7:205-220 [= Trudy. Vseukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk. Fizichno-Matematichnoho Viddilu 13:203-218]. PDF
• Radchenko, A. 2005b. Monographic revision of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of North Korea. Annales Zoologici (Warsaw) 55:127-221. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G. 1996e. A key to the ant genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Palearctic Asia. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 75:1195-1203.
• Radchenko, A. G. 1997b. Review of ants of the genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Palearctic. The subgenus Camponotus s. str. [In Russian.]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 76:554-564. PDF
• Ran, H.; Zhou, S. 2011. Checklist of Chinese ants: the formicomorph subfamilies. Journal of Guangxi Normal University, Natural Science Edition 29 (3):65-73.
• Yasumatsu, K.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1951. Revisional notes on Camponotus herculeanus Linné and close relatives in Palearctic regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University 10:29-44. PDF
• Yasumatsu, K.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1957. A second look at the ants of the Camponotus herculeanus group in eastern Asia. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University 11:45-51. PDF