• De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 528 (s.w.)
• Combination in Paracryptocerus (Harnedia): Kempf, 1958a: 138.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Brandão, 1991: 385.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 528.
• Status as species: Smith, 1867: 525; Dalla Torre, 1893: 142; Emery, 1924f: 309; Kempf, 1958a: 138; Kempf, 1972b: 176; Brandão, 1991: 385; Bolton, 1995b: 425; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 528 (redescription); Sandoval-Gómez & Sánchez-Restrepo, 2019: 911.

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus crenaticeps

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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• Sandoval-Gómez, V. E.; Sánchez-Restrepo, A. F. 2019. Género Cephalotes. Capítulo 29. Pp. 899-915 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
• Smith, F. 1867. Descriptions of new species of Cryptoceridae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (3)5:523-528. PDF