• Lectotype designation: Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 151.
• [Misspelled as dentinoda by Enzmann, 1946c: 94.]
• Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 149 (q.)
• Combination in Crematogaster (Acrocoelia): Santschi, 1929f: 91.
• Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Buren, 1968b: 93; Blaimer, 2012c: 55; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.
• Subspecies of Crematogaster opaca: Santschi, 1929f: 91; Enzmann, 1946c: 94; Kempf, 1972b: 81.
• Status as species: Smith, 1958c: 126; Buren, 1968b: 93 (in key); Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1378; Bolton, 1995b: 151; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 89; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 147 (redescription); Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.

Obsolete combinations

• Crematogaster opaca dentinodis

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
• 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
• Forel, A. 1901d. I. Fourmis mexicaines récoltées par M. le professeur W.-M. Wheeler. II. A propos de la classification des fourmis. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:123-141. PDF
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• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
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• Morgan, C. E.; Mackay, W. P. 2017. The North America acrobat ants of the hyperdiverse genus Crematogaster. Balti, Moldova: Lambert Academic Publishing, 532 pp. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1929f. Mélange myrmécologique. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 46:84-93. PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• 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
• Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B. 2022. Taxonomy in the phylogenomic era: species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships among North American ants of the Crematogaster scutellaris group (Formicidae: Hymenoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194:893-937. PDF