• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Brandão, 1991: 384.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 98.
• Subspecies of Cephalotes haemorrhoidalis: Kempf, 1951: 152; Kempf, 1972b: 121; Brandão, 1991: 384; Bolton, 1995b: 427.
• Status as species: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 98 (redescription); Lubertazzi, 2019: 104.

Obsolete combinations

• Hypocryptocerus haemorrhoidalis vinosus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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