• De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 273 (m.)
• Combination in Paracryptocerus: Kempf, 1951: 232.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Hespenheide, 1986: 395.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 269.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 141; Forel, 1899b: 49; Emery, 1924f: 309; Kempf, 1951: 232; Kempf, 1972b: 175; Brandão, 1991: 384; Bolton, 1995b: 424; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 269 (redescription); Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 257; Sandoval-Gómez & Sánchez-Restrepo, 2019: 910; Oliveira et al., 2021: 21 (in list).
• Senior synonym of Cephalotes multispinus: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 269; Oliveira et al., 2021: 21 (in list).

Junior synonyms

• Cephalotes multispinus (Emery, 1890)
  Obsolete combination(s): Cryptocerus cordatus multispinus, Cryptocerus multispinus

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus basalis

Citations

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