• [Also described as new by Emery, 1894l: 59.]
• Wheeler & Wheeler, 1983a: 607 (l.)
• Combination in Cephalotes: Emery, 1914b: 39
• Junior synonym of Cephalotes serraticeps: Kempf, 1963c: 437; Kempf, 1972b: 76; Bolton, 1995b: 140.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 140; Forel, 1899b: 48; Emery, 1914b: 39; Santschi, 1920f: 149 (in key); Emery, 1924f: 303; Kempf, 1951: 112 (redescription); De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 129 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus alfaroi

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. 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
• Emery, C. 1890c. Studii sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 22:38-80. PDF
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• Emery, C. 1914b. Cephalotes et Cryptocerus. Le type du genre Crematogaster. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 58:37-39. PDF
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• Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
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• Kempf, W. W. 1963c. Nota sinonímica acêrca de formigas da tribo Cephalotini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 23:435-438. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Santschi, F. 1920f. Nouvelles fourmis du genre Cephalotes Latr. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1920:147-149. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1983a. Supplementary studies on ant larvae: Myrmicinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 108:601-610. PDF