Mayr, 1863a: 436; Roger, 1863b: 35; Dalla Torre, 1893: 149, 150 (Glyptomyrmex, Myrmicocrypta); Emery, 1924f: 335; Kempf, 1972b: 151; Bolton, 1995b: 286.
Mayr, 1865: 25 (diagnosis); Emery, 1924f: 335 (diagnosis); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1051 (census); Sosa-Calvo & Schultz, 2010: 183 (diagnosis); Baccaro et al., 2015: 244 (genus in Brazil); Cantone, 2017: 219 (brief male diagnosis); Sosa-Calvo et al., 2019: 1 (phylogeny, evolution); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 862 (Colombia species).
Extant: 27 valid species (1 synonym, 4 obsolete combinations, 1 unavailable misspelling), 4 valid subspecies (5 obsolete combinations)