• Lectotype designation: Blaimer, 2012a: 249, ‘Results S1: Species accounts’: 4.
• [Justified emendation of spelling to Crematogaster ranavalonae: Forel, 1891c: 184.]
• Forel, 1891c: 185 (m.); Emery, 1897b: 13 (q.)
• Combination in Crematogaster (Oxygyne): Forel, 1901j: 375
• Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Blaimer, 2012c: 55.
• Status as species: Forel, 1891c: 184 (redescription); Forel, 1892l: 532 (in key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 84; Emery, 1899e: 286; Forel, 1907i: 81; Emery, 1922c: 156; Wheeler, 1922: 1025; Kutter, 1968c: 203; Bolton, 1995b: 161; Blaimer, 2012a: 249; ‘Results S1: Species accounts’: 4 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Crematogaster descarpentriesi: Blaimer, 2012a: 249; ‘Results S1: Species accounts’: 4.
• Senior synonym of Crematogaster emmae: Blaimer, 2012a: 249; ‘Results S1: Species accounts’: 4.
• Senior synonym of Crematogaster inops: Blaimer, 2012a: 249; ‘Results S1: Species accounts’: 4.
• Senior synonym of Crematogaster emmae laticeps: Blaimer, 2012a: 249; ‘Results S1: Species accounts’: 4.
• Senior synonym of Crematogaster ranavalonae paulinae: Blaimer, 2012a: 249; ‘Results S1: Species accounts’: 4.
• Senior synonym of Crematogaster ranavalonae pepo: Blaimer, 2012a: 249; ‘Results S1: Species accounts’: 4.

Junior synonyms

• Crematogaster descarpentriesi Santschi, 1928
• Crematogaster emmae Forel, 1891
• Crematogaster emmae laticeps Forel, 1892
• Crematogaster inops Forel, 1892
• Crematogaster ranavalonae paulinae Forel, 1892
  Obsolete combination(s): Crematogaster paulinae
• Crematogaster ranavalonae pepo Forel, 1922

Citations

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• 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.
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