• Wheeler, 1912b: 132 (q.m.)
• Combination in Crematogaster (Orthocrema): Emery, 1922c: 134
• Status as species: Wheeler, 1910a: 565; Wheeler, 1912b: 132; Wheeler, 1919h: 111; Emery, 1922c: 134; Cole, 1937a: 101; Creighton, 1939b: 139 (in key); Wheeler, 1942: 193; Creighton, 1950a: 205; Smith, 1951c: 807; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Smith, 1979: 1377; Bolton, 1995b: 147; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 85.
• Junior synonym of Crematogaster torosa: Longino, 2003a: 121; Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 385; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 902.

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