• Combination in Paracryptocerus (Harnedia): Kempf, 1958a: 38.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Brandão, 1991: 384.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 677.
• Status as species: Kempf, 1958a: 38 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 175; Brandão, 1991: 384; Bolton, 1995b: 424; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 677 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Cephalotes guttifer trivialis: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 677.
• Material of the unavailable name Cephalotes peltatus ellenriederi tucumana referred here by Kempf, 1958a: 38; Kempf, 1972b: 175; Brandão, 1991: 384.

Junior synonyms

• Cephalotes guttifer trivialis (Santschi, 1929)

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus bivestitus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
• 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
• 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
• Santschi, F. 1922e. Description de nouvelles fourmis de l'Argentine et pays limitrophes. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 94:241-262. PDF
• Ulysséa, M. A.; Santos, S.; Moleiro, H. P.; Brandão, C. R. F.; Camacho, G. P. 2025. The MZSP Ant Type Collection: a complete catalogue and digital resource for global access. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (3):blaf034, 17 pp. [online early] 10.1093/biolinnean/blaf034 PDF