• [Notes. (i) The original spelling Crematogaster is used throughout, the incorrect subsequent spelling Cremastogaster is ignored; see catalogue of genus-group names. (ii) The spurious paper by Soulié & Dicko, 1965: 85, is ignored. This publication merely repeats, inaccurately, the Wheeler, 1922: 828 catalogue of Afrotopical Crematogaster, but treats the subgenera as genera; see catalogue of genus-group names.]
• [Type-species not Formica acuta, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1912d: 272; this error repeated in, for example: Emery, 1914b: 39; Arnold, 1920a: 482; Emery, 1922c: 128; Gallardo, 1934b: 4; Soulié, 1965: 78.]
• [Cremastogaster Mayr, 1861: 74 (and many later authors), incorrect subsequent spelling. Discussions of spelling: Emery, 1912d: 272 (footnote); Wheeler, 1913a: 78; Donisthorpe, 1941f: 36; Buren, 1959: 125.]
• Crematogaster in Poneridae, Myrmicidae: Smith, 1858a: 134.
• Crematogaster in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1871a: 329; Cresson, 1887: 262.
• Crematogaster in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1855: 468 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1857a: 75 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1861: 74 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 22 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879: 464 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 79.
• Crematogaster in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Emery, 1877b: 81 [Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae].
• Crematogaster in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Forel, 1893b: 164; Forel, 1895b: 130; Emery, 1895l: 769; Forel, 1899f: 81; Ashmead, 1905c: 383; Wheeler, 1910a: 140; Emery, 1914e: 41; Forel, 1917: 242; Arnold, 1920a: 482; Emery, 1922c: 127; Wheeler, 1922: 661; all subsequent authors.

Junior synonyms

• Acrocoelia Mayr, 1853
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Acrocoelia)
• Atopogyne Forel, 1911
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Atopogyne)
• Colobocrema Wheeler, 1927
• Nematocrema Santschi, 1918
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Nematocrema)
• Oxygyne Forel, 1901
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Oxygyne)
• Paracrema Santschi, 1918
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Paracrema)
• Physocrema Forel, 1912
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Physocrema)
• Sphaerocrema Santschi, 1918
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema)
• Xiphocrema Forel, 1913
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Xiphocrema)

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