Taxonomic history
| Karavaiev, 1912b PDF: 592 (m.). |
| Combination in Camponotus (Camponotus): Emery, 1925d PDF: 72. |
| Subspecies of Camponotus herculeanus: Ruzsky, 1926 PDF: 108. |
| Provisional junior synonym of Camponotus saxatilis: Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928b PDF: 4; Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929a PDF: 18. |
| Junior synonym of Camponotus herculeanus: Yasumatsu & Brown, 1957: 49. |
| Revived from synonymy as subspecies of Camponotus herculeanus: Arnol'di, 1967 PDF: 1821. |
| Subspecies of Camponotus herculeanus: Collingwood, 1976a PDF: 306; Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 166; Radchenko, 1996E: 1203. |
| Raised to species: Collingwood, 1981 PDF: 29; Bolton, 1995b: 121. |
| Senior synonym of Camponotus altaica, Camponotus jacuticus: Arnol'di, 1967 PDF: 1821. |