• Cratomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l: 769; Ashmead, 1905c: 383; Wheeler, 1910a: 140; Emery, 1914e: 40; Forel, 1917: 240; Emery, 1921c: 43; Wheeler, 1922: 660; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 635.
• Cratomyrmex as subgenus of Messor: Santschi, 1920d: 378.
• Cratomyrmex as genus: Emery, 1892f: 572; Ashmead, 1905c: 383; Wheeler, 1910a: 140; Santschi, 1913c: 307; Emery, 1914e: 40; Forel, 1917: 240; Emery, 1921c: 43; Wheeler, 1922: 660, 802; Bernard, 1971: 6; Bolton, 1973a: 349.
• Cratomyrmex as junior synonym of Messor: Emery, 1924f: 357 (footnote); Donisthorpe, 1943g: 635; Bolton, 1982: 338; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Bolton, 1994: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 25; Tang et al., 1995: 53; Bolton, 2003: 231.

Obsolete classifications

• Messor (Cratomyrmex)

Citations

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