• Forel, 1904c: 380 (m.); Wheeler, 1906h: 324 (s.q.); Imai & Kubota, 1972: 195 (k.); Dhadwal & Bharti, 2021: 75 (s.)
• Combination in Camponotus (Camponotus): Forel, 1914a: 266.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1879a: 56; Emery, 1896j: 372 (in list).
• Subspecies of Camponotus pennsylvanicus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 247; Emery, 1893i: 268; Forel, 1900h: 270; Forel, 1904c: 380; Ruzsky, 1905b: 239; Forel, 1907h: 19.
• Subspecies of Camponotus herculeanus: Wheeler, 1906h: 324; Emery, 1908a: 186; Wheeler, 1909d: 343; Yano, 1910a: 422; Karavaiev, 1912b: 593; Forel, 1913g: 200; Ruzsky, 1916: 4; Ruzsky, 1920: 79; Wheeler, 1921c: 544; Wheeler, 1923c: 5; Ruzsky, 1925b: 42; Kiseleva, 1925: 73; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928b: 2; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929a: 17; Teranishi, 1940: 24, 68, 72; Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951: 36; Azuma, 1953: 5; Azuma, 1955: 80.
• Status as species: Smith, 1874b: 402; Bingham, 1903: 370; Forel, 1914a: 266; Santschi, 1920h: 173; Santschi, 1924c: 114; Emery, 1925d: 73; Santschi, 1925f: 88; Ruzsky, 1926: 108; Wheeler, 1927e: 3; Wheeler, 1928d: 116; Wheeler, 1929g: 9; Karavaiev, 1929d: 212; Wheeler, 1930k: 75; Stitz, 1934: 4; Morisita, 1945: 22; Azuma, 1950a: 35; Azuma, 1951: 88; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 221; Yasumatsu & Brown, 1957: 49; Collingwood, 1962c: 220, 223; Baltazar, 1966: 268; Arnol'di, 1967: 1826; Dlussky & Pisarski, 1970: 86; Collingwood, 1976a: 307; Azuma, 1977a: 116; Onoyama, 1980a: 200; Collingwood, 1981: 29; Wang et al., 1989a: 224 (in key); Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 169; Morisita et al., 1991: 41; Wang, 1992: 681; Wu & Wang, 1992c: 1313; Tang et al., 1995: 115; Radchenko, 1994b: 116 (in key); Wang & Wu, 1994: 31 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 106; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 181; Radchenko, 1996e: 1202 (in key); Radchenko, 1997b: 555; Terayama, 1999b: 30 (in key); Zhou, 2001a: 210; Zhang & Zheng, 2002: 218; Imai et al., 2003: 39; Radchenko, 2005b: 158; Karmaly & Narendran, 2006: 77; Zhou, 2006: 588; Pfeiffer et al., 2007: 4; Ran & Zhou, 2011: 68; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 28; Rasheed et al., 2019: 429; Dhadwal & Bharti, 2021: 75 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Camponotus japonicus manczshuricus: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951: 31; Radchenko, 1997b: 556.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus japonicus miltotus: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951: 36; Yasumatsu & Brown, 1957: 49; Bolton, 1995b: 106; Radchenko, 1997b: 556; Zhou, 2001a: 210.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus japonicus sanguinea Karavaiev, 1929d: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951: 36; Yasumatsu & Brown, 1957: 49; Bolton, 1995b: 106; Radchenko, 1997b: 556; Zhou, 2001a: 210.
• Senior synonym of Camponotus japonicus wui: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1951: 36; Yasumatsu & Brown, 1957: 49; Bolton, 1995b: 106; Radchenko, 1997b: 556; Zhou, 2001a: 210.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus japonicus manczshuricus Emery, 1925
• Camponotus japonicus miltotus Wheeler, 1929
• Camponotus japonicus sanguinea Karavaiev, 1929
• Camponotus japonicus wui Wheeler, 1929

Obsolete combinations

• Camponotus herculeanus japonicus

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