• [Crematogaster also noted as new in Lund, 1831b: 104.]
• [Type-species not Formica acuta Fabricius, 1804, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1912d: 272; this error repeated in, for example, Emery, 1914b: 39; Emery, 1919b: 61; Arnold, 1920a: 482; Emery, 1922c: 128; Gallardo, 1934b: 4; Soulié, 1965: 78; Arakelian, 1994: 43.]
• [Note: discussion of type designation: Wheeler, 1913a: 78; Donisthorpe, 1941f: 36.]
• Crematogaster in Poneridae, Myrmicidae: Smith, 1858a: 134.
• Crematogaster in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1871a: 329; Cresson, 1887: 262.
• Crematogaster in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1855: 468 [Myrmicidae]; Smith, 1857a: 75 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1861: 74 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 22 [Myrmicidae]; Dours, 1873: 169 [Myrmicidae]; Forel, 1874: 68 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879: 464 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 79 [Myrmicinae].
• Crematogaster in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Emery, 1877b: 81 [Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae].
• Crematogaster in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Forel, 1893b: 164; Forel, 1895b: 130; Emery, 1895l: 769; Emery, 1896e: 180; Forel, 1899b: 81; Ashmead, 1905c: 383; Wheeler, 1910a: 140; Emery, 1914e: 41; Emery, 1916a: 156; Forel, 1917: 242; Arnold, 1920a: 482; Emery, 1922c: 127; Wheeler, 1922: 661; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 25; Bolton, 2003: 66, 238; Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Crematogaster in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini, Crematogaster genus group: Blaimer et al., 2018: 7.
• Crematogaster as genus: all authors.
• Crematogaster as senior synonym of Acrocoelia: Smith, 1858a: 135; Mayr, 1863a: 404; Roger, 1863b: 36; Mayr, 1872: 153; Dours, 1873: 169; Emery & Forel, 1879: 464; Forel, 1891c: 179; Dalla Torre, 1893: 79; Forel, 1899b: 81; Wheeler, 1911g: 158; Wheeler, 1922: 828; Buren, 1959: 126; Kempf, 1972b: 81; Bolton, 1973a: 342; Brown, 1973b: 178; Smith, 1979: 1376; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13; Ogata, 1991b: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 19; Tang et al., 1995: 64; Bolton, 2003: 238; Blaimer, 2012c: 52.
• Crematogaster (Crematogaster) as senior synonym of Atopogyne: Blaimer, 2012c: 52.
• Crematogaster (Crematogaster) as senior synonym of Colobocrema: Blaimer, 2012c: 52.
• Crematogaster (Crematogaster) as senior synonym of Decacrema: Blaimer, 2012c: 52.
• Crematogaster (Crematogaster) as senior synonym of Nematocrema: Blaimer, 2012c: 52.
• Crematogaster (Crematogaster) as senior synonym of Oxygyne: Blaimer, 2012c: 52.
• Crematogaster (Crematogaster) as senior synonym of Paracrema: Blaimer, 2012c: 52.
• Crematogaster (Crematogaster) as senior synonym of Physocrema: Blaimer, 2012c: 52.
• Crematogaster (Crematogaster) as senior synonym of Sphaerocrema: Blaimer, 2012c: 52.
• Crematogaster (Crematogaster) as senior synonym of Xiphocrema: Blaimer, 2012c: 52.
• [Cremastogaster: incorrect subsequent spelling by Mayr, 1861: 74; Mayr, 1863a: 403; Roger, 1863b: 36; and many later authors.]
• [Note (i): throughout this catalogue the original spelling Crematogaster is used, the incorrect subsequent spelling Cremastogaster is ignored. Discussions of spelling: Emery, 1912d: 272 (footnote); Wheeler, 1913a: 78; Donisthorpe, 1941f: 36; Buren, 1959: 125. The incorrect spelling is extremely common earlier, but persists as late as Baroni Urbani, 1974a: 233; Schembri & Collingwood, 1981: 430; Le Moli & Rosi, 1991: 30.]
• [Note (ii): all subgenera were given as provisional junior synonyms of Crematogaster by Brown, 1973b: 179-185. The list was repeated by Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13, with all subgenera listed as junior synonyms. They reverted to subgeneric status in Bolton, 1994: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 25. Subsequent modifications and revisions are recorded in Blaimer, 2012c: 52.]
• [Note (iii): the spurious paper by Soulié & Dicko, 1965: 85, is ignored. This publication merely repeats, inaccurately, the Wheeler, 1922: 828 catalogue of Afrotopical Crematogaster, but treats the subgenera as genera; see catalogue of genus-group names.]

Junior synonyms

• Acrocoelia Mayr, 1853
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Acrocoelia)
• Atopogyne Forel, 1911
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Atopogyne)
• Colobocrema Wheeler, 1927
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Colobocrema)
• Decacrema Forel, 1910
  Obsolete classification(s): Crematogaster (Decacrema)

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