• Paracryptocerus in Myrmicinae, Cryptocerini: Forel, 1917: 246; Wheeler, 1922: 665; Emery, 1924f: 306; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 680.
• Paracryptocerus in Myrmicinae, Cephalotini: Smith, 1949c: 20; Kempf, 1951: 153; subsequent authors.
• Paracryptocerus as subgenus of Cryptocerus: Emery, 1915g: 192; Forel, 1917: 246; Wheeler, 1922: 665; Emery, 1924f: 306; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 680.
• Paracryptocerus as genus: Smith, 1949c: 20; Kempf, 1951: 153; Kempf, 1972b: 175.
• Paracryptocerus as junior synonym of Zacryptocerus: Kempf, 1973c: 460; Smith, 1979: 1402; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Brandão, 1991: 365; Bolton, 1995b: 41.
• Paracryptocerus as junior synonym of Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 195.

Obsolete classifications

• Cryptocerus (Paracryptocerus)
• Paracryptocerus (Paracryptocerus)

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
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