• Physocrema as genus: Soulié, 1964: 398; Soulié, 1965: 79.
• Physocrema as junior synonym of Crematogaster: Brown, 1973b: 183 [provisional]; Smith, 1979: 1376; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13; Ogata, 1991b: 125; Tang et al., 1995: 64.
• Physocrema as subgenus of Crematogaster: Forel, 1912g: 220; Forel, 1917: 242; Emery, 1922c: 139; Wheeler, 1922: 662; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Bolton, 2003: 239.
• Physocrema as junior synonym of Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Blaimer, 2012c: 53.

Obsolete classifications

• Crematogaster (Physocrema)

Citations

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