• Lectotype designation: Mackay, 2019: 246.
• [Misspelled as levigatus by Roger, 1863b: 5; Dalla Torre, 1893: 238, and others.]
• [Misspelled as laevitatus by Borgmeier, 1927c: 149.]
• Wheeler, 1910g: 327 (s.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1968a: 216 (l.)
• Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 5.
• Combination in Camponotus (Camponotus): Forel, 1914a: 266.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 416; Roger, 1863b: 5; Mayr, 1886c: 356; Mayr, 1886d: 420; Cresson, 1887: 255; Dalla Torre, 1893: 238; Emery, 1893k: 671; Emery, 1896j: 372 (in list); Wheeler, 1910g: 327 (redescription); Wheeler, 1910a: 571; Forel, 1914a: 266; Wheeler, 1917a: 556; Emery, 1925d: 75; Essig, 1926: 868; Cole, 1936a: 39; Cole, 1942: 388; Creighton, 1950a: 369; Smith, 1951c: 840; Cole, 1954f: 272; Smith, 1967a: 366; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Yensen et al., 1977: 184; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1978b: 392; Smith, 1979: 1426; Allred, 1982: 455; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 60; MacKay et al., 1988: 106; Blacker, 1992: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 107; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 293; Hansen & Klotz, 2005: 83; Ward, 2005: 63; Mackay, 2019: 241 (redescription); Ward & Boudinot, 2021: 46.
• [Note: Mackay, 2019: 241, records that “most of these (earlier) references are probably misidentifications of Camponotus laevissimus”.]
• Senior synonym of Camponotus quercicola: Ward & Boudinot, 2021: 46.

Junior synonyms

• Camponotus quercicola Smith, 1954

Obsolete combinations

• Formica laevigata

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