• Lectotype designation: Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 909.
• [First available use of Crematogaster lineolata laeviuscula californica Emery, 1895d; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
• Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Buren, 1968b: 94; Blaimer, 2012c: 55; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 901.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1910a: 564; Emery, 1922c: 141; Essig, 1926: 859.
• Subspecies of Crematogaster lineolata: Wheeler, 1934f: 135; Wheeler, 1935g: 22.
• Subspecies of Crematogaster laeviuscula: Enzmann, 1946c: 93.
• Junior synonym of Crematogaster coarctata: Creighton, 1950a: 207; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 105.
• Status as species: Smith, 1951c: 808; Smith, 1958c: 125; Buren, 1968b: 94 (in key); Smith, 1979: 1377; Snelling & George, 1979: 121; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 47; Bolton, 1995b: 149; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 86; Ward, 2005: 65; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 909.

Obsolete combinations

• Crematogaster laeviuscula californica

Citations

• Blaimer, B. B. 2012c. A subgeneric revision of Crematogaster and discussion of regional species-groups (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3482:47-67. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Buren, W. F. 1968b. A review of the species of Crematogaster, sensu stricto, in North America (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Part II. Descriptions of new species. Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 3:91-121. PDF
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Enzmann, J. 1946c. Crematogaster lineolata cerasi, the cherry ant of Asa Fitsch; (with a survey of the American forms of Crematogaster, subgenus Acrocoelia). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 54:89-97. PDF
• Essig, E. O. 1926. Insects of western North America. New York: Macmillan, xi + 1035 pp. PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
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• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
• Snelling, R. R.; George, C. D. 1979. The taxonomy, distribution and ecology of California desert ants. Report to California Desert Plan Program, Bureau of Land Management. Riverside: U.S. Dept. Interior, 335 + 89 pp.
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• Wheeler, W. M. 1934f. Ants from the islands off the west coast of Lower California and Mexico. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 10:132-144. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.