This is a list of valid species and subspecies of the formicine ant genus Camponotus, including the carpenter ants. There are over 1,100 species in this genus.
A
Camponotus aberrans Mayr, 1895 Camponotus abjectus Santschi, 1937 Camponotus abrahami Forel, 1913 Camponotus abscisus Roger, 1863 Camponotus absquatulator Snelling, R.R., 2006 Camponotus abunanus Mann, 1916 Camponotus acutirostris Wheeler, 1910 Camponotus acvapimensis Mayr, 1862 Camponotus adami Forel, 1910 Camponotus adenensis Emery, 1893 Camponotus adustus Viehmeyer, 1916 Camponotus aegaeus Emery, 1915 Camponotus aegyptiacus Emery, 1915 Camponotus aeneopilosus Mayr, 1862 Camponotus aequatorialis Roger, 1863 Camponotus aequitas Santschi, 1920 Camponotus aethiops (Latreille, 1798) Camponotus afflatus Viehmeyer, 1925 Camponotus ager (Smith F., 1858) Camponotus agonius Santschi, 1915 Camponotus aguilerai Kusnezov, 1952 Camponotus aina Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022 Camponotus akiae Yamane & Hosoishi, 2023 Camponotus aktaci Karaman, 2013 Camponotus alacer Forel, 1912 Camponotus alamaina Rakotonirina, Csösz & Fisher, 2016 Camponotus albicoxis Forel, 1899 Camponotus albipes Emery, 1893 Camponotus albistramineus Wheeler, 1936 Camponotus albivillosus Zhou, 2001 Camponotus alboannulatus Mayr, 1887 Camponotus albocinctus (Ashmead, 1905) Camponotus albosparsus Bingham, 1903 Camponotus alii Forel, 1890 Camponotus altivagans Wheeler, 1936 Camponotus amamianus Terayama, 1991 Camponotus amaurus Espadaler, 1997 Camponotus americanus Mayr, 1862 Camponotus amoris Forel, 1904 Camponotus amphidus Santschi, 1926 Camponotus anatolicus Karaman & Aktaç, 2013 Camponotus andrei Forel, 1885 Camponotus andrewsi Donisthorpe, 1936 Camponotus andrianjaka Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022 Camponotus androy Rakotonirina, Csösz & Fisher, 2016 Camponotus andyyoungi McArthur, 2008 Camponotus anezkae Klimes & McArthur, 2014 Camponotus anguliceps Stitz, 1938 Camponotus angusticeps Emery, 1886 Camponotus angusticollis (Jerdon, 1851) Camponotus anningensis Wu and Wang, 1989 Camponotus annulatus Karavaiev, 1929 Camponotus anthrax Wheeler, 1911 Camponotus antsaraingy Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022 Camponotus apicalis (Mann, 1916) Camponotus apostolus Forel, 1901 Camponotus arabicus Collingwood, 1985 Camponotus arboreus (Smith F., 1858) Camponotus arcuatus Mayr, 1876 Camponotus arenatus Shattuck and McArthur, 2002 Camponotus argus Santschi, 1935 Camponotus arhuacus Forel, 1902 Camponotus armeniacus Arnol’di, 1967 Camponotus arminius Forel, 1910 Camponotus armstrongi McAreavey, 1949 Camponotus arnoldinus Forel, 1914 Camponotus aro Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022 Camponotus arrogans (Smith F., 1858) Camponotus asara Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022 Camponotus ashokai Karmaly & Narendran, 2006 Camponotus asli Dumpert, 1989 Camponotus aterrimus Emery, 1895 Camponotus atimo Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022 Camponotus atlantis Forel, 1890 Camponotus atriceps (Smith F., 1858) Camponotus atricolor (Nylander, 1849) Camponotus atriscapus Santschi, 1926 Camponotus atrox Emery, 1925 Camponotus augustei Wheeler and Mann, 1914 Camponotus auratiacus Zhou, 2001 Camponotus aurelianus Forel, 1912 Camponotus aureopilus Viehmeyer, 1914 Camponotus aureus Dumpert, 2006 Camponotus auricomus Roger, 1862 Camponotus auriculatus Mayr, 1897 Camponotus auriventris Emery, 1889 Camponotus aurocinctus (Smith F., 1858) Camponotus aurofasciatus Santschi, 1915 Camponotus auropubens Forel, 1894 Camponotus aurosus Roger, 1863 Camponotus autrani Forel, 1886 Camponotus avius Santschi, 1926
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Camponotus bakeri Wheeler, 1904 Camponotus bakhtiariensis Salata, Khalili-Moghadam & Borowiec, 2020 Camponotus baldaccii Emery, 1908 Camponotus balzani Emery, 1894 Camponotus banghaasi Emery, 1903 Camponotus barbaricus Emery, 1905 Camponotus barbarossa Emery, 1920 Camponotus barbatus Roger, 1863 Camponotus barbosus Baroni Urbani, 1972 Camponotus basuto Arnold, 1958 Camponotus batesii Forel, 1895 Camponotus bayeri Forel, 1913 Camponotus baynei Arnold, 1922 Camponotus beccarii Emery, 1887 Camponotus becki Santschi, 1923 Camponotus bedoti Emery, 1893 Camponotus beebei Wheeler, 1918 Camponotus bellacolor Mackay, 2019 Camponotus belligerus Santschi, 1920 Camponotus bellus Forel, 1908 Camponotus belumensis Dumpert, 1995 Camponotus bemaheva Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022 Camponotus benguelensis Santschi, 1911 Camponotus benguetensis Zettel & Balàka, 2018 Camponotus bermudezi Aguayo, 1932 Camponotus berthoudi Forel, 1879 Camponotus bertolonii Emery, 1895 Camponotus bevohitra Rakotonirina, Csösz & Fisher, 2016 Camponotus bianconii Emery, 1895 Camponotus bidens Mayr, 1870 Camponotus bifossus Santschi, 1917 Camponotus bigenus Santschi, 1919 Camponotus binghamii Forel, 1894 Camponotus biolleyi Forel, 1902 Camponotus bishamon Terayama, 1999 Camponotus bispinosus Mayr, 1870 Camponotus biturberculatus Andre, 1889 Camponotus blandus (Smith F., 1858) Camponotus bocki Forel, 1907 Camponotus boghossiani Forel, 1911 Camponotus boivini Forel, 1891 Camponotus bonariensis Mayr, 1868 Camponotus borellii Emery, 1894 Camponotus boriquen Duarte & Breto, 2024 Camponotus bottegoi Emery, 1895 Camponotus bozaka Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022 Camponotus bradleyi Wheeler, 1934 Camponotus branneri (Mann, 1916) Camponotus brasiliensis Mayr, 1862 Camponotus braunsi Mayr, 1895 Camponotus brettesi Forel, 1899 Camponotus brevicollis Stitz, 1916 Camponotus brevipilis MacKay, 2025 Camponotus brevis Forel, 1899 Camponotus breviscapus Zhou, 2001 Camponotus brevisetosus Forel, 1910 Camponotus britteni Donisthorpe, 1931 Camponotus brookei Forel, 1914 Camponotus bruchi Forel, 1912 Camponotus brullei (Smith F., 1858) Camponotus bruneiensis Viehmeyer, 1922 Camponotus brunni Forel, 1901 Camponotus brutus Forel, 1886 Camponotus buchholzi Mayr, 1902 Camponotus buchneri Forel, 1886 Camponotus buddhae Forel, 1892 Camponotus bugnioni Forel, 1899 Camponotus burgeoni Santschi, 1926 Camponotus butteli Forel, 1905 Camponotus buttikeri Arnold, 1958
C
Camponotus cacicus Emery, 1903 Camponotus caesar Forel, 1886 Camponotus caffer Emery, 1895 Camponotus callistus Emery, 1911 Camponotus callmorphus Stitz, 1923 Camponotus camelinus (Smith F., 1857) Camponotus cameloides (Smith F., 1857) Camponotus cameranoi Emery, 1894 Camponotus cameratus Viehmeyer, 1925 Camponotus cameroni Forel, 1892 Camponotus candiotes Emery, 1894 Camponotus canescens Mayr, 1870 Camponotus capito Mayr, 1876 Camponotus capperi Forel, 1899 Camponotus caracalla Forel, 1912 Camponotus carbo Emery, 1877 Camponotus carbonarius (Latreille, 1802) Camponotus carin Emery, 1889 Camponotus carinifer Viehmeyer, 1916 Camponotus caryae (Fitch, 1855) Camponotus castaneus (Latreille, 1802) Camponotus castanicola Donisthorpe, 1943 Camponotus cecconii Emery, 1908 Camponotus cemeryi Özdikmen, 2010 Camponotus ceriseipes Clark, 1938 Camponotus cervicalis Roger, 1863 Camponotus chalceoides Clark, 1938 Camponotus chalceus Crawley, 1915 Camponotus championi Forel, 1899 Camponotus chapini Wheeler, W. M., 1922 Camponotus chartifex (Smith F., 1860) Camponotus chazaliei Forel, 1899 Camponotus cheesmanae Donisthorpe, 1932 Camponotus chilensis (Spinola, 1851) Camponotus chilon Taylor et al., 2018 Camponotus chloroticus Emery, 1897 Camponotus chongqingensis Wu and Wang, 1989 Camponotus chrislaini Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022 Camponotus christi Forel, 1886 Camponotus christophei Wheeler, and Mann, 1914 Camponotus christopherseni Forel, 1912 Camponotus chriswilsoni MacKay, 2025 Camponotus chromaiodes Bolton, 1995 Camponotus chrysurus Gerstacker, 1871 Camponotus chucki Fisher, 2025 Camponotus cilicicus Emery, 1908 Camponotus cillae Forel, 1912 Camponotus cinctellus (Gerstacker, 1859) Camponotus cinerascens (Fabricius, 1787) Camponotus cinereus Mayr, 1876 Camponotus cingulatus Mayr, 1862 Camponotus circularis Mayr, 1870 Camponotus circumspectus (Smith F., 1861) Camponotus clarior Forel, 1902 Camponotus claripes Mayr, 1876 Camponotus clarithorax Creighton, 1950 Camponotus claveri Rasoamanana & Fisher, 2022 Camponotus claviscapus Forel, 1899 Camponotus cleobulus Santschi, 1919 Camponotus clypeatus Mayr, 1866 Camponotus cocosensis Wheeler, 1919 Camponotus cognatocompressus Forel, 1904 Camponotus coloratus Forel, 1904 Camponotus compositor Santschi, 1922 Camponotus compressiscapus Andre, 1889 Camponotus compressus (Fabricius, 1787) Camponotus concilians Forel, 1915 Camponotus concolor Forel, 1891 Camponotus concurrens Zettel & Laciny, 2018 Camponotus confluens Forel, 1913 Camponotus confucii Forel, 1894 Camponotus confusus Emery, 1887 Camponotus congolensis Emery, 1899 Camponotus coniceps Santschi, 1926 Camponotus conradti Forel, 1914 Camponotus consanguineus (Smith F., 1861) Camponotus consectator (Smith F., 1858) Camponotus consobrinus (Erichson, 1842) Camponotus conspicuus (Smith F., 1858) Camponotus constructor Forel, 1899 Camponotus contractus Mayr, 1872 Camponotus conulus Mayr, 1870 Camponotus convexiclypeus MacKay, 1997 Camponotus coptobregma Kempf, 1968 Camponotus cordiceps Santschi, 1939 Camponotus cordincola Wheeler, 1934 Camponotus coriolanus Forel, 1912 Camponotus corniculatus Wheeler, 1934 Camponotus cornis Wang and Wu, 1994 Camponotus coruscus (Smith F., 1862) Camponotus cosmicus (Smith F., 1858) Camponotus coxalis (Smith F., 1859) Camponotus crassicornis Emery, 1920 Camponotus crassiculus MacKay, 2025 Camponotus crassisquamis Forel, 1902 Camponotus crassus Mayr, 1862 Camponotus crawleyi Emery, 1920 Camponotus crenatus Mayr, 1876 Camponotus crepusculi Arnold, 1922 Camponotus cressoni Andre, 1887 Camponotus criniticeps Menozzi, 1939 Camponotus crispulus Santschi, 1922 †Camponotus crozei Riou, 1999 Camponotus crucheti Santschi, 1911 Camponotus cruentatus (Latreille, 1802) Camponotus ctenopilosus MacKay, 2025 Camponotus cuauhtemoc Snelling, 1988 Camponotus cubangensis Forel, 1901 Camponotus cuneidorsus Emery, 1920 Camponotus cuneiscapus Forel, 1910 †Camponotus curviansatus Zhang, 1989 Camponotus curviscapus Emery, 1896 Camponotus cyrtomyrmodes Donisthorpe, 1941
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Camponotus daitoensis Terayama, 1999 Camponotus dalmasi Forel, 1899 Camponotus dalmaticus (Nylander, 1849) Camponotus daraina Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2022 Camponotus darlingtoni Wheeler, 1934 Camponotus darwinii Forel, 1886 Camponotus debellator Santschi, 1926 Camponotus decessor Forel, 1908 Camponotus decipiens Emery, 1893 Camponotus declivus Santschi, 1922 Camponotus dedalus Forel, 1911 Camponotus deletangi Santschi, 1920 Camponotus densopilus Shattuck, 2005 Camponotus depressiceps Forel, 1879 Camponotus depressus Mayr, 1866 Camponotus desantii Santschi, 1915 Camponotus descarpentriesi Santschi, 1926 Camponotus detritus Emery, 1886 Camponotus devestivus Wheeler, 1928 Camponotus dewitzii Forel, 1886 Camponotus dicksoni Arnold, 1948 Camponotus difformis Stitz, 1938 Camponotus dimorphus Emery, 1894 Camponotus diplopunctatus Emery, 1915 Camponotus discolor (Buckley, 1866) Camponotus discors Forel, 1902 Camponotus distinguendus (Spinola, 1851) Camponotus divergens Mayr, 1887 Camponotus diversipalpus Santschi, 1922 Camponotus dolabratus Menozzi, 1927 Camponotus dolendus Forel, 1892 Camponotus dolichoderoides Forel, 1911 Camponotus donisthorpei Emery, 1920 Camponotus donnellani Shattuck and McArthur, 2002 Camponotus dorex Fisher, 2025 Camponotus dorycus (Smith F., 1860) Camponotus dromas Santschi, 1919 Camponotus dromedarius Forel, 1891 Camponotus druryi Forel, 1886 Camponotus dryandrae McArthur and Adams, 1996 Camponotus dufouri Forel, 1891 Camponotus dumetorum Wheeler., 1910 Camponotus durnyx Fisher, 2025
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Camponotus eastwoodi McArthur and Adams, 1996 Camponotus ebneri Finzi, 1930 Camponotus echinoploides Forel, 1891 Camponotus edmondi Andre, 1887