• [Note: traditionally, major workers in this predominantly worker-dimorphic genus are termed “soldiers”, and minor workers “workers” (e.g.; Smith, 1947a, Kempf, 1951, De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999). This terminology is maintained here, while recognising that the term “soldier” refers only to size/morphology, not to the function of the caste.]
• [Type-species not Formica cephalotes Linnaeus, 1758, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1911g: 160; corrected by Wheeler, 1913a: 78; Emery, 1914b: 38; Emery, 1924f: 303.]
• Cephalotes in Formicariae: Latreille, 1802b: 357.
• Cephalotes in Myrmicinae, Cryptocerini: Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 246; Wheeler, 1922: 665; Emery, 1924f: 303; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79.
• Cephalotes in Myrmicinae, Cephalotini: Smith, 1949c: 19; Kempf, 1951: 105; Kempf, 1972b: 75; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 23; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 44.
• Cephalotes in Myrmicinae, Attini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Cephalotes as junior synonym of Atta: Forel, 1893h: 587 (error); Forel, 1899b: 30 (error).
• Cephalotes as genus: all authors except Fabricius, 1804: 419; Latreille, 1816: 496; Latreille, 1817c: 526.
• Cephalotes as senior synonym of Cryptocerus: Fabricius, 1804: 419; Latreille, 1816: 496; Latreille, 1817c: 526; Wheeler, 1913a: 78; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 635; Donisthorpe, 1944b: 59; Smith, 1949c: 19; Kempf, 1951: 107; subsequent authors; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13; Bolton, 1995b: 23; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 194.
• [Note: Fabricius, 1804: 419; Latreille, 1816: 496; Latreille, 1817c: 526, give Cryptocerus as senior synonym, but Cephalotes has priority. Latreille, 1816: 496, himself says of Cephalotes, “Je l’avois d’abord consacré (Hist. gén. des insectes., tom. 3) à un genre démembré de celui de fourmi, et qu’on appelle maintenant cryptocère.”]
• Cephalotes as senior synonym of Cyathocephalus: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 195.
• Cephalotes as senior synonym of Cyathomyrmex: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 195.
• Cephalotes as senior synonym of Eucryptocerus: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 195.
• Cephalotes as senior synonym of †Exocryptocerus: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 195.
• Cephalotes as senior synonym of Harnedia: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 195.
• Cephalotes as senior synonym of Hypocryptocerus: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 195.
• Cephalotes as senior synonym of Paracryptocerus: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 195.
• Cephalotes as senior synonym of Zacryptocerus: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 195.

Junior synonyms

• Cryptocerus Latreille, 1803
  Obsolete classification(s): Cryptocerus (Cryptocerus)
• Cyathomyrmex Creighton, 1933
  Obsolete classification(s): Cryptocerus (Cyathomyrmex), Paracryptocerus (Cyathomyrmex)
• Eucryptocerus Kempf, 1951
• †Exocryptocerus Vierbergen & Scheven, 1995
• Harnedia Smith, 1949
  Obsolete classification(s): Paracryptocerus (Harnedia)
• Hypocryptocerus Wheeler, 1920
  Obsolete classification(s): Cryptocerus (Hypocryptocerus)
• Paracryptocerus Emery, 1915
  Obsolete classification(s): Cryptocerus (Paracryptocerus), Paracryptocerus (Paracryptocerus)
• Zacryptocerus Wheeler, 1911
  Obsolete classification(s): Cryptocerus (Zacryptocerus)

Obsolete classifications

• Cryptocerus (Cephalotes)

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