• Wheeler, 1942: 211 (s.m.)
• Combination in Cryptocerus (Cyathocephalus): Emery, 1915g: 192.
• Combination in Paracryptocerus (Cyathomyrmex): Kempf, 1958a: 146.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Brandão, 1991: 388.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 551.
• Status as species: Forel, 1899b: 51; Emery, 1924f: 311; Menozzi, 1927c: 268; Wheeler, 1942: 211; Kempf, 1958a: 146 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 180; Brandão, 1991: 388; Bolton, 1995b: 427; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 551 (redescription); Sandoval-Gómez & Sánchez-Restrepo, 2019: 914.
• Senior synonym of Cephalotes setulifer orbis: Kempf, 1958a: 146; Kempf, 1972b: 180; Brandão, 1991: 388; Bolton, 1995b: 427; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 551.

Junior synonyms

• Cephalotes setulifer orbis (Forel, 1906)
  Obsolete combination(s): Cryptocerus setulifer orbis

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus setulifer

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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• De Andrade, M. L.; Baroni Urbani, C. 1999. Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 271:1-889. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1958a. New studies of the ant tribe Cephalotini (Hym. Formicidae). Studia Entomologica (n.s.)1:1-168.
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Menozzi, C. 1927c. Formiche raccolte dal Sig. H. Schmidt nei dintorni di San José di Costa Rica. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 16:266-277. PDF
• 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
• Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF