• Lectotype designation: Kempf, 1959a: 95.
• Emery, 1894d: 203 (s.); De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 233 (s.q.m.)
• Combination in Cryptocerus (Paracryptocerus): Emery, 1915g: 192.
• Combination in Paracryptocerus: Kempf, 1951: 164.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Brandão, 1991: 386.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 231.
• Status as species: Smith, 1862d: 411; Mayr, 1863a: 406; Roger, 1863b: 38; Norton, 1868a: 72; Dalla Torre, 1893: 142; Emery, 1894d: 203; Forel, 1895b: 133; Forel, 1911g: 261; Emery, 1924f: 307; Borgmeier, 1927c: 116; Kempf, 1951: 164; Kempf, 1959a: 95 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 178; Brandão, 1991: 386; Bolton, 1995b: 426; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 231 (redescription); Guénard & Economo, 2015: 227; Guerrero et al., 2018: 241; Sandoval-Gómez & Sánchez-Restrepo, 2019: 912; Oliveira et al., 2021: 42 (in list).

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus laminatus

Citations

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