• Lectotype designation: Blaimer, 2012b: 49.
• Combination in Crematogaster (Orthocrema): Wheeler, 1922: 1024; Emery, 1922c: 131; Blaimer, 2012b: 32.
• Subspecies of Crematogaster sordidula: Wheeler, 1922: 1024
• Status as species: Emery, 1912e: 668; Emery, 1922c: 131; Bolton, 1995b: 157; Blaimer, 2012b: 49 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Crematogaster sordidula madecassa

Citations

• Blaimer, B. B. 2012b. Taxonomy and species-groups of the subgenus Crematogaster (Orthocrema) in the Malagasy region (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 199:23-70. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1895g. Mission scientifique de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire de Diego-Suarez (Madagascar-nord) (Avril-août 1893). Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:336-345. PDF
• Emery, C. 1912e. Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. Teil XI. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1912:651-672.
• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.