• Longino & Snelling, 2002: 28 (q.)
• Combination in Cataulacus: Mayr, 1886c: 361.
• Combination in Procryptocerus: Emery, 1887h: 470 (footnote).
• Status as species: Smith, 1862d: 413; Roger, 1863b: 39; Mayr, 1863a: 428; Mayr, 1886c: 361; Dalla Torre, 1893: 140; Emery, 1894d: 201; von Jhering, 1894: 383; Forel, 1895b: 132; Forel, 1911g: 262; Luederwaldt, 1918: 40; Emery, 1924f: 302; Borgmeier, 1927c: 114; Kempf, 1951: 60; Kempf, 1963c: 435; Kempf, 1972b: 214; Bolton, 1995b: 368; Longino & Snelling, 2002: 28 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 121; Guerrero et al., 2018: 252; Serna et al., 2019: 1066.

Obsolete combinations

• Meranoplus subpilosus

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.
• Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1887h. Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia (continuazione e fine). [concl.]. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 25[=(2)5]:465-473. PDF
• Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 26:137-241. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
• Forel, A. 1911g. Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 11:249-303. PDF
• Guerrero, R. J.; Fernández, F.; Escárraga, M. E.; Pérez-Pedraza, L.; Serna, F.; Mackay, W. P.; Sandoval, V.; Veraga, V.; Suárez, D.; García, E. I.; Sánchez, A.; Meneses, A.D.; Tocora, M.C.; Sosa-Calvo, J. 2018. New records of myrmicine ants for Colombia. Revista Colombiana de Entomología 44:238-259. 10.25100/socolen.v44i2.7115 PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1951. A taxonomic study on the ant tribe Cephalotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 22:1-244. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1963c. Nota sinonímica acêrca de formigas da tribo Cephalotini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 23:435-438. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Longino, J. T.; Snelling, R. R. 2002. A taxonomic revision of the Procryptocerus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Central America. Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 495:1-30. PDF
• Luederwaldt, H. 1918. Notas myrmecologicas. Revista do Museu Paulista 10:29-64. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1886c. Notizen über die Formiciden-Sammlung des British Museum in London. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 36:353-368. PDF
• Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
• Serna, F. J.; Mackay, W. P.; Vergara-Navarro, E. V. 2019. Género Procryptocerus. Capítulo 31. Pp. 1055-1067 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
• Smith, F. 1860c. Descriptions of new genera and species of exotic Hymenoptera. Journal of Entomology 1:65-84. PDF
• Smith, F. 1862d. A list of the genera and species belonging to the family Cryptoceridae, with descriptions of new species; also a list of the species of the genus Echinopla. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (3)1:407-416. PDF
• von Jhering, H. 1894. Die ameisen von Rio Grande do Sul. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39:321-447. PDF