• Lectotype designation: Kempf, 1951: 196.
• De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 251 (q.)
• Combination in Cryptocerus (Paracryptocerus): Emery, 1924f: 307.
• Combination in Paracryptocerus (Paracryptocerus): Kempf, 1951: 196.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Brandão, 1991: 388.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 247.
• Subspecies of Cephalotes complanatus: Emery, 1924f: 307; Borgmeier, 1927c: 115; Wheeler, 1942: 209; Kempf, 1951: 196.
• Status as species: Kempf, 1967e: 362; Kempf, 1972b: 180; Brandão, 1991: 388; Bolton, 1995b: 427; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 247 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 116; Sandoval-Gómez & Sánchez-Restrepo, 2019: 914; Oliveira et al., 2021: 21 (in list).

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus complanatus ramiphilus

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
• 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF