• Wheeler, 1905c: 102 (s.q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954b: 156 (l.)
• Combination in Cryptocerus (Cyathocephalus): Emery, 1915g: 192.
• Combination in Cryptocerus (Cyathomyrmex): Wheeler, 1937b: 459.
• Combination in Paracryptocerus (Cyathomyrmex): Smith, 1951c: 825; Kempf, 1958a: 155.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Smith, 1979: 1403.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 457.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 144; Emery, 1894d: 211; Emery, 1895d: 325; Wheeler, 1905c: 102, 128; Wheeler, 1910a: 567; Forel, 1912f: 201; Wheeler, 1913b: 496; Wheeler & Mann, 1914: 39; Emery, 1915g: 192; Wheeler, 1917g: 461; Mann, 1920b: 430; Mann, 1922: 34; Emery, 1924f: 312; Smith, 1930a: 4; Wheeler, 1932a: 11; Weber, 1934a: 57; Wheeler, 1937b: 459; Wheeler, 1942: 212; Smith, 1947a: 30 (redescription); Weber, 1948b: 83; Creighton, 1950a: 298; Smith, 1951c: 825; Smith, 1954c: 8; Kempf, 1958a: 155 (redescription); Smith, 1958c: 135; Wilson, 1964b: 6; Smith, 1967a: 360; Kempf, 1972b: 181; Alayo, 1974: 40; Wilson, 1976b: 354; Smith, 1979: 1403; Deyrup et al., 1989: 97; Brandão, 1991: 389; Bolton, 1995b: 427; Deyrup, 2003: 44; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 457 (redescription); Deyrup, 2017: 58.

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus varians

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