• Combination in Paracryptocerus (Harnedia): Kempf, 1958a: 136.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Hespenheide, 1986: 395.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 563.
• Status as species: Smith, 1862d: 411; Mayr, 1863a: 405; Roger, 1863b: 39; Dalla Torre, 1893: 142; Forel, 1899b: 49; Emery, 1924f: 309; Kempf, 1958a: 136; Kempf, 1972b: 175; Brandão, 1991: 384; Bolton, 1995b: 424; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 563 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Cephalotes aztecus: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 563

Junior synonyms

• Cephalotes aztecus (Forel, 1901)
  Obsolete combination(s): Cryptocerus aztecus

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus bimaculatus

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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• Smith, F. 1862d. A list of the genera and species belonging to the family Cryptoceridae, with descriptions of new species; also a list of the species of the genus Echinopla. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (3)1:407-416. PDF