• Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 84; Bolton, 1995b: 147; Deyrup et al., 2000: 297; Deyrup, 2003: 44.
• Junior synonym of Crematogaster obscurata: Longino, 2003a: 97; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 294; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.

Citations

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