• Harnedia in Myrmicinae, Cephalotini: Smith, 1949c: 20; Kempf, 1951: 233.
• Harnedia as subgenus of Paracryptocerus: Smith, 1949c: 20; Kempf, 1951: 233.
• Harnedia as junior synonym of Paracryptocerus: Kempf, 1972b: 7, 175.
• Harnedia as junior synonym of Zacryptocerus: Kempf, 1973c: 460; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Brandão, 1991: 384; Bolton, 1995b: 30.
• Harnedia as junior synonym of Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 195.

Obsolete classifications

• Paracryptocerus (Harnedia)

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• De Andrade, M. L.; Baroni Urbani, C. 1999. Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 271:1-889. PDF
• Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
• Kempf, W. W. 1951. A taxonomic study on the ant tribe Cephalotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 22:1-244. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1973c. A new Zacryptocerus from Brazil, with remarks on the generic classification of the tribe Cephalotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 16:449-462. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1949c. On the status of Cryptocerus Latreille and Cephalotes Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 56:18-21. PDF