• Combination in Myrmicocrypta (Mycetophylax): Santschi, 1922c: 355.
• Combination in Mycetophylax: Santschi, 1923c: 268; Weber, 1958e: 262.
• Combination in Paramycetophylax: Kusnezov, 1956a: 24; Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 27.
• Status as species: Santschi, 1922c: 355; Emery, 1924f: 339; Weber, 1958e: 262; Kempf, 1972b: 145; Bolton, 1995b: 268; Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 27 (redescription); Hanisch et al., 2022: 1.
• Senior synonym of Paramycetophylax cristulata: Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 27.
• Senior synonym of Paramycetophylax cristulata emmae: Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 27.
• Senior synonym of Paramycetophylax bruchi pauper: Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 27.
• Senior synonym of Paramycetophylax bruchi simplex: Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 27.

Junior synonyms

• Paramycetophylax bruchi pauper (Santschi, 1923)
  Obsolete combination(s): Mycetophylax bruchi pauper
• Paramycetophylax cristulata (Santschi, 1922)
  Obsolete combination(s): Myrmicocrypta cristulata, Mycetophylax cristulatus
• Paramycetophylax cristulata emmae (Santschi, 1929)
  Obsolete combination(s): Mycetophylax cristulatus emmae

Obsolete combinations

• Mycetophylax bruchi
• Sericomyrmex bruchi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Hanisch, P. E.; Sosa-Calvo, J.; Schultz, T. R. 2022. The last piece of the puzzle? Phylogenetic position and natural history of the monotypic fungus-farming ant genus Paramycetophylax (Formicidae: Attini). Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1): 11:1-17. 10.1093/isd/ixab029 PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Klingenberg, C.; Brandão, C. R. F. 2009. Revision of the fungus-growing ant genera Mycetophylax Emery and Paramycetophylax Kusnezov rev. stat., and description of Kalathomyrmex n. gen. (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini). Zootaxa 2052:1-31. PDF
• Kusnezov, N. 1956a. Claves para la identificación de las hormigas de la fauna argentina. Idia 104-105:1-56. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1916e. Formicides sudaméricains nouveaux ou peu connus. Physis (Buenos Aires) 2:365-399. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1922c. Myrmicines, dolichodérines et autres formicides néotropiques. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 54:345-378. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1923c. Solenopsis et autres fourmis néotropicales. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 30:245-273. PDF
• Weber, N. A. 1958e. Some attine synonyms and types (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 60:259-264. PDF