• Neotype designation: Snelling, 2006: 85.
• Wheeler, 1910g: 312 (s.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1970b: 651 (l.)
• Combination in Camponotus: Emery, 1893m: 231.
• Combination in Camponotus (Myrmoturba): Wheeler, 1917a: 561.
• Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 80.
• Subspecies of Camponotus fumidus: Wheeler, 1902g: 22; Wheeler, 1910g: 312 (redescription); Wheeler, 1910a: 571; Wheeler, 1917a: 561; Emery, 1925d: 80; Cole, 1937b: 139; Creighton, 1950a: 376; Smith, 1951c: 843; Smith, 1958c: 144; Kempf, 1972b: 67.
• Status as species: Cresson, 1887: 256; Dalla Torre, 1893: 231; Emery, 1896j: 378 (in list); Snelling, 1968b: 350; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Smith, 1979: 1428; Snelling & George, 1979: 183; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 62 (in key); Brandão, 1991: 335; Bolton, 1995b: 99; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 288; Ward, 2005: 63; Snelling, 2006: 85 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus fumidus pubicornis: Wheeler, 1910g: 312; Emery, 1925d: 80; Creighton, 1950a: 376; Smith, 1951c: 843; Snelling, 1968b: 350; Smith, 1979: 1428; Snelling & George, 1979: 183; Bolton, 1995b: 99; Snelling, 2006: 85.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus fumidus spurcus: Creighton, 1950a: 376; Snelling, 1968b: 351; Smith, 1979: 1428; Snelling & George, 1979: 183; Bolton, 1995b: 99; Snelling, 2006: 85.
• [Note: senior synonym of †Palaeosminthurus juliae: Snelling, R.R. (pers. comm. to B. Bolton, 2004). Synonymy remained unpublished at his death in 2008; unconfirmed but accepted provisionally here.]

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus fumidus pubicornis Emery, 1893
• Camponotus fumidus spurcus Wheeler, 1910

Obsolete combinations

• Formica festinata

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