• Eucryptocerus in Myrmicinae, Cephalotini: Kempf, 1951: 127; subsequent authors.
• Eucryptocerus in Myrmicinae, Cryptocerini: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 (anachronism).
• Eucryptocerus as genus: Kempf, 1972b: 107; Kempf, 1973c: 460; Brandão, 1991: 343; Bolton, 1994: 105; Bolton, 1995b: 29.
• Eucryptocerus as junior synonym of Cephalotes: Brown, 1973b: 180 [provisional]; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 59; Bolton, 2003: 195.

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