• Lectotype designation: Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 925.
• Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 332 (q.m.)
• Combination in Crematogaster (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922c: 141
• Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Buren, 1968b: 92; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.
• As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1908h: 479; Wheeler, 1910a: 564; Emery, 1922c: 141; Essig, 1926: 859; Smith, 1930a: 4; Dennis, 1938: 284.
• Subspecies of Crematogaster opaca: Wheeler, 1919h: 111; Smith, 1927b: 310; Smith, 1951c: 810.
• Subspecies of Crematogaster lineolata: Creighton, 1950a: 214
• Junior synonym of Crematogaster lineolata: Johnson, 1988: 319
• Status as species: Enzmann, 1946c: 93; Buren, in Smith, 1958c: 127; Carter, 1962a: 6 (in list); Beck et al., 1967: 69; Smith, 1967a: 356; Buren, 1968b: 92, 93 (in key); Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1380; DuBois & LaBerge, 1988: 138; MacKay et al., 1988: 88 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 160; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 100; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 330 (redescription); Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 925.
• Senior synonym of Crematogaster opaca texana: Creighton, 1950a: 214; Buren, in Smith, 1958c: 127; Smith, 1979: 1380; Bolton, 1995b: 164; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 925.

Junior synonyms

• Crematogaster opaca texana Santschi, 1929

Citations

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