• Wheeler, 1907b: 273 (s.m.)
• Status as species: Emery, 1890c: 76; Dalla Torre, 1893: 140; Emery, 1894l: 61; Forel, 1899b: 48; Wheeler, 1907b: 273.
• Junior synonym of Cephalotes scutulatus: Emery, 1924f: 311; Kempf, 1958d: 110; Kempf, 1972b: 180; Brandão, 1991: 388; Bolton, 1995b: 424; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 410.

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus angulosus

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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• Emery, C. 1894l. Estudios sobre las hormigas de Costa Rica. Anales del Museo Nacional de Costa Rica 1888-1889:45-64. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1958d. Synonymic note on ants of the genus Paracryptocerus Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomological News 69:108-110. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Smith, F. 1867. Descriptions of new species of Cryptoceridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (3)5:523-528. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1907b. A collection of ants from British Honduras. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23:271-277. PDF