Crematogaster (Sphaerocrema) hottentota Emery
  Type location South
Africa (C. kneri Mayr subsp hottentota n. subsp.,
Emery, 1899e: 482, worker; raised to species by Santschi, 1925h: 161,
footnote naming bassuto) Transvaal, Simon - see below
junior synoyms (here)
bassuto (Crematogaster
(Sphaerocrema) hottentota Em, var. basuto n. var., Santschi,
1925h: 161, footnote, worker; Santschi, 1926b: 224) from Lesotho,
Wroughton - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912801
krantziana (Cremastogaster
gambiensis And. v. Krantziana
n. v., Forel, 1914d: 234, worker & male;
Arnold, 1920a: 530, queen; new placement) from South
Africa, Krantz Kloof, nr Durban, H W B Marley - see below
worker only described (see Bolton, 1995)  .
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 Emery's (1899e) description is at  . Arnold (1920a: 528)
gave a translation (as a race of kneri), this is at  . Santschi's (1926b)
illustrated description and notes on the species is at  . From the type images, bassuto appears to be rather more yellow and closer to krantziana but the morphology of bpth is near identical to the type.
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It seems likely that krantziana (Cremastogaster
gambiensis And. v. Krantziana n. v., Forel, 1914d: 234,
worker & male; Arnold, 1920a: 530, queen) from South Africa
is
a junior synonym of hottentota and not of Crematogaster
(Sphaerocrema) gambiensis.
Forel's (1914d) description of krantziana is at  . Arnold (1920a) provided
a translation and description of the krantziana queen, this is
at  .
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The
photomontage of a worker from the type collection is collated from 
The
photomontage of the krantziana type worker is collated from