• [Type-species not Cryptocerus rimosus Spinola, 1851b, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1911g: 161.]
• [Type-species not Meranoplus difformis Smith, 1858a, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1924f: 340.]
• Cyphomyrmex in Formicinae: Mayr, 1862: 651 (in key), 690 [Formicidae].
• Cyphomyrmex in Myrmicidae, Cryptoceridae: Emery, 1877b: 81.
• Cyphomyrmex in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 25 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 149 [Myrmicinae].
• Cyphomyrmex in Cryptoceridae, Dacetini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384 [Dacetonini].
• Cyphomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Attini: Forel, 1893b: 164; Emery, 1895l: 770; Emery, 1896e: 181; Forel, 1899b: 40; Wheeler, 1907d: 670; Wheeler, 1910a: 141; Emery, 1913c: 251; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 339; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 26; Bolton, 2003: 57, 198; Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Cyphomyrmex as junior synonym of Cataulacus: Roger, 1863b: 39.
• Cyphomyrmex as subgenus of Atta: Forel, 1912f: 188.
• Cyphomyrmex as genus: Mayr, 1862: 690; Mayr, 1863a: 406; Mayr, 1865: 25; Dalla Torre, 1893: 149; Ashmead, 1905c: 384; Wheeler, 1907d: 670; Emery, 1913c: 251; Bruch, 1914: 217; Emery, 1914e: 42; Luederwaldt, 1918: 39; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 339; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 26; Bolton, 2003: 57, 198.
• Cyphomyrmex as senior synonym of Cyphomannia: Kempf, 1962b: 29; Kempf, 1968a: 39; Kempf, 1972b: 92; Smith, 1979: 1410; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13; Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 1995b: 26; Bolton, 2003: 198.

Junior synonyms

• Cyphomannia Weber, 1938
  Obsolete classification(s): Cyphomyrmex (Cyphomannia)

Obsolete classifications

• Atta (Cyphomyrmex)

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