• Lectotype designation: Kempf, 1967e: 363.
• De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 189 (q.m.)
• Combination in Cryptocerus (Paracryptocerus): Emery, 1924f: 307.
• Combination in Paracryptocerus (Paracryptocerus): Kempf, 1951: 231.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Kempf, 1974a: 69.
• Combination in Cephalotes: Baroni Urbani, 1998b: 326; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 186.
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 307; Borgmeier, 1927c: 116; Kempf, 1951: 231; Kempf, 1967e: 363; Kempf, 1972b: 177; Kempf, 1974a: 69; Brandão, 1991: 386; Bolton, 1995b: 425; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 186 (redescription); Sandoval-Gómez & Sánchez-Restrepo, 2019: 911; Oliveira et al., 2021: 42 (in list).

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus duckei

Citations

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• Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1906d. Fourmis néotropiques nouvelles ou peu connues. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 50:225-249. PDF
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• Kempf, W. W. 1967e. A new revisionary note on the genus Paracryptocerus Emery (Hym. Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 10:361-368. PDF
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• Kempf, W. W. 1974a. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on some Neotropical Cephalotini ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 18:67-76. PDF
• Oliveira, A. M.; Powell, S.; Feitosa, R. M. 2021. A taxonomic study of the Brazilian turtle ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Cephalotes). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 65 (3):52 pp. e20210028. [online early] 10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2021-0028 PDF
• Sandoval-Gómez, V. E.; Sánchez-Restrepo, A. F. 2019. Género Cephalotes. Capítulo 29. Pp. 899-915 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF