• Kempf, 1952: 8 (s.)
• Combination in Paracryptocerus (Harnedia): Kempf, 1952: 7.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Hespenheide, 1986: 395.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 431.
• Status as species: Forel, 1912f: 202; Emery, 1924f: 310; Kempf, 1952: 7 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 177; Kempf, 1974a: 73 (in key); Brandão, 1991: 386; Bolton, 1995b: 425; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 431 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 116; Sandoval-Gómez & Sánchez-Restrepo, 2019: 911.

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus foliaceus

Citations

• Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• De Andrade, M. L.; Baroni Urbani, C. 1999. Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 271:1-889. PDF
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• Hespenheide, H. A. 1986. Mimicry of ants of the genus Zacryptocerus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 94:394-408.
• Kempf, W. W. 1952. A synopsis of the pinelii-complex in the genus Paracryptocerus (Hym. Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 1:1-30. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1974a. Taxonomic and faunistic notes on some Neotropical Cephalotini ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 18:67-76. 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