Crematogaster (Crematogaster) rifelna Buren, 1968b: 96 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Texas), MEXICO (San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Texas, a few mi. S Riviera (W.F. Buren). Primary type depository: LACM. Primary type specimen: LACMENT164556. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: >45 paratype workers, >10 paratype queens, >4 paratype males. Secondary type localities: paratypes with same data as holotype, paratypes (number not stated, “from several series”) U.S.A.: Texas, Victoria, Barroso, Riviera, Harlingden, and Brownsville (W.F. Buren), paratypes Texas, Victoria (J.D. Mitchell), paratypes Texas, Gambel Creek (W.S. Creighton), paratypes Mexico: Mirador, in Tillandsia streptophylla (no collector’s name), paratypes Mexico: San Luis Potosi, Valles (W.S. Creighton), Mexico: Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria (W.S. Creighton). Secondary type depositories: AMNH, CASC, LACM, MCZC, USNM, MZSP. Type notes: Holotype depository LACM, not USNM (Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 930).