Cryptocerus pavonii Latreille, 1809: 132 (w.) SOUTH AMERICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 325). Primary type locality: neotype Peru: Victoria, Junín, 1.vii.1938 (W.F. Walker). Primary type depository: MZSP. Type notes: Original type-data: holotype worker, “America australi”: (no further data); depository unknown and type-material lost.