• Combination in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Wheeler, 1922: 843; in Crematogaster (Acrocoelia): Emery, 1922c: 148; in Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Bolton, 1995b: 166.
• Current subspecies: nominal plus C. r. atriscapis.

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1892b. Die Akazien-Crematogaster von Prof. Keller aus dem Somaliland. Zoologischer Anzeiger 15:140-143. PDF
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• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
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