• Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 193; Smith, 1862d: 411; Mayr, 1863a: 405; Roger, 1863b: 39; Dalla Torre, 1893: 141; Forel, 1897b: 300.
• Subspecies of Cephalotes discocephalus: Forel, 1893j: 382
• Subspecies of Cephalotes pallens: Forel, 1899b: 51; Forel, 1905e: 158; Wheeler, 1905c: 128.
• Junior synonym of Cephalotes pallens: Emery, 1894d: 212; Emery, 1896h: 635; Forel, 1899b: 51; Emery, 1924f: 311; Kempf, 1958a: 151; Kempf, 1972b: 179; Brandão, 1991: 387; Bolton, 1995b: 424; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 493; Oliveira et al., 2021: 34 (in list).

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus araneolus

Citations

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