• Lectotype designation: Hosoishi & Ogata, 2016a: 590.
• Wheeler, 1928d: 111 (q.m.)
• Combination in Crematogaster (Orthocrema): Emery, 1922c: 131; Blaimer, 2012c: 55.
• Subspecies of Crematogaster sordidula: Wheeler, 1906h: 312; Yano, 1910a: 419; Emery, 1912e: 671; Emery, 1922c: 131; Santschi, 1925f: 85; Wheeler, 1928d: 111; Santschi, 1930c: 263 (in key); Wheeler, 1930k: 66; Teranishi, 1940: 17; Eidmann, 1941a: 18; Brown, 1949g: 37; Azuma, 1950a: 35; Azuma, 1951: 87; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 99; Azuma, 1953: 2; Onoyama, 1980a: 198.
• Status as species: Collingwood, 1976a: 303; Azuma, 1977a: 114; Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 129; Ogata, 1991b: 128; Morisita et al., 1992: 61; Bolton, 1995b: 159; Wu & Wang, 1995a: 63; Zhou, 2001a: 73; Zhang & Zheng, 2002: 219; Imai et al., 2003: 108; Radchenko, 2005b: 133; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 42; Hosoishi & Ogata, 2016a: 590 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Crematogaster sordidula japonica: Brown, 1949g: 37; Onoyama, 1980a: 198; Bolton, 1995b: 159; Zhou, 2001a: 73; Imai et al., 2003: 108; Hosoishi & Ogata, 2016a: 590.

Junior synonyms

• Crematogaster sordidula japonica Forel, 1912

Obsolete combinations

• Crematogaster sordidula osakensis

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