Crematogaster (Crematogaster) chiarinii Emery

Type location Ethiopia (Cremastogaster Chiarinii, Emery, 1881a: 271, illustrated, worker; Forel, 1892e: 353, queen & male); subspecies aethiops (Forel, 1907c: 142, footnote, worker; Menozzi, 1930b: 90, male) from Somalia, bayeri (Santschi, 1926b: 215, worker) from Kenya, cincta (Emery, 1896i: 157, worker) from Somalia, sellula (Santschi, 1914a: 431, worker) from Tanzania, subsulcata (Santschi, 1914a: 432, worker) from Sudan, taediosa (Cremastogaster taediosa,Forel, 1894b: 98, worker) from Ethiopia and v-nigra (Cremastogaster chiarinii Em. var. V. nigrum n.var., Forel, 1910e: 434, worker - NOTE the "nigra", Forel, 1910e: 434, worker, in Bolton, 1995: 158,, is an error) from Congo; all forms described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Emery's (1881a) description is at . Forel's (1894b) description of taediosa is at . Emery's (1896i) description of cincta is at . Forel's (1907c) description of aethiops is at . Forel's (1910e) description of v-nigra is at . Santschi's (1914a) description of sellula is at . Santschi's (1914a) description of subsulcata is at . Santschi's (1926b) description of bayeri is at . Emery (1897e: 598) noted that the variety cincta was generally paler than the type being yellow brown, with head and gaster darker.

Wheeler (1922) has many records from East Africa and into Saudi Arabia. It seems quite possible that this is not present in the Congo Basin, and is a savannah, semi-desert species.

Collingwood (1985) separated it from other species recorded from Saudi Arabia by - head wider than long; petiole about as wide as long; alitrunk paler than head or gaster, propodeal spines more than 0.2 mm; also more strongly sculptured than affabilis (type location Somalia); mesonotum with keel.