Crematogaster (Crematogaster) cincta Emery -
new status
  Type location Ethiopia
(Crematogaster
Chiarinii, Emery,
var. cincta n. var., Emery,
1896i: 157, worker) from Somalia, Lugh - see below
junior synonyms (here)
aethiops (var. aethiops
n. var.,
Forel, 1907c: 142, footnote, worker; Menozzi, 1930b: 90,
male) from Somalia, in acacia spines, Prof. Keller - see below
bayeri (Crematogaster
(Acrocoelia) chiarini
Em., stirps bayeri n. st.,
Santschi, 1926b: 215, worker) from Kenya, Korio River, Dr
Bayer, 2.vi.1914 - see http://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912659
sellula (Crematogaster
Chiarinii Em., stirps sellula
n. st.,
Santschi, 1914a: 431, worker) from Tanzania, Khutu Steppe, K
Schwarze, 1912 - see below
subsulcata (Crematogaster
Chiarinii Em., stirps subsulcata
n. st.,
Santschi, 1914a: 432, worker) from Sudan, Khartoum, Karavaiev - see https://www.antweb.org/specimenImages.do?code=casent0912661
Worker and male described  .
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Note: with
fresh specimens from acacia in Sudan
that appear to be close to the description given by Emery
(1896i) for the species Crematogaster chiarinii variety
cincta,
I separated the distinct forms with a general yellow-brown or
red-brown colour
and darker gaster, with paler appendages to a separate species here
described.
The aethiops form is a puzzle
as Forel (1907c) noted is as collected with the variety cincta
in the spines of acacias but
as being black or near black, with very short propodeal spines and a
the occiput more distinctly impressed. This suggested it might be
yet another species. The availability of type images from Antweb
(February 2014) show little difference between the forms,
however.
Wheeler (1922) has many records from East Africa and
into Saudi Arabia. It seems very likely that those were mostly if
not all cincta.
Collingwood (1985) separated "C. chiarinii" 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.
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The
photomontage of a worker from the type collection is collated from 
The
photomontage of the 
The
photomontage is of a major worker from Sudan, Khordonia;
collector J Mathews (JM 294).
The
photomontage is of a minor worker from Sudan, Khordonia;
collector J Mathews (JM 294).
The
photomontage is of the Santschi (1914a) Schwarze workers of sellula
from Tanzania, FoCol images.