• Emery, 1924f: 328 (m.); Brown & Kempf, 1960: 174 (q.); Probst & Brandão, 2022: 25 (q.m.), 26 (l.)
• Combination in Basiceros: Emery, 1924f: 328
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 148; Forel, 1895b: 136; Emery, 1924f: 328; Borgmeier, 1927c: 120; Brown, 1949h: 89; Brown & Kempf, 1960: 172 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 36; Brown, 1974c: 140 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 80; Feitosa et al., 2007: 19 (in key); Probst & Brandão, 2022: 23 (redescription).
• Senior synonym of Basiceros squamifer: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 172; Kempf, 1972b: 36; Bolton, 1995b: 80; Probst & Brandão, 2022: 23.

Junior synonyms

• Basiceros squamifer Borgmeier, 1937

Obsolete combinations

• Ceratobasis convexiceps

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949h. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini: IV. Some genera properly excluded from the Dacetini, with the establishment of the Basicerotini new tribe. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 75:83-96. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1974c. A supplement to the revision of the ant genus Basiceros (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 82:131-140. PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:161-250. PDF
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Feitosa, R. M.; Brandão, C. R. F.; Dietz, B. H. 2007. Basiceros scambognathus (Brown, 1949) n. comb., with the first worker and male descriptions, and a revised generic diagnosis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 47:15-26. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Mayr, G. 1887. Südamerikanische Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 37:511-632. PDF
• Probst, R. S.; Brandão, C. R. F. 2022. A taxonomic revision of the dirt ants, Basiceros Schulz, 1906 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zootaxa 5149 (1):1-75. 10.11646/zootaxa.5149.1.1 PDF