• Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 406; Roger, 1863b: 38; Smith, 1867: 526.
• Junior synonym of Cephalotes umbraculatus: Emery, 1890c: 72; Dalla Torre, 1893: 145; Emery, 1894l: 61; Forel, 1899b: 51; Emery, 1924f: 309; Borgmeier, 1927c: 119; Kempf, 1958a: 142; Kempf, 1972b: 181; Brandão, 1991: 389; Bolton, 1995b: 425; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 368; Oliveira et al., 2021: 45 (in list).

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus flavomaculatus

Citations

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• 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
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