• [Misspelled as clipeatus by Emery, 1906c: 170.]
• Smith, 1853: 217 (q.m.); Forel, 1906d: 235 (s.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954b: 152 (l.)
• Combination in Cephalotes: Emery, 1914b: 39.
• Combination in Cryptocerus (Zacryptocerus): Wheeler, 1916f: 326.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Wheeler, 1911g: 175; Emery, 1915g: 192; Santschi, 1916e: 283; Emery, 1924f: 304; Kempf, 1951: 136.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 286.
• Status as species: Klug, 1824: 207; Perty, 1833: 136; Guérin-Méneville, 1844a: 426; Smith, 1853: 217; Smith, 1858a: 189; Smith, 1862d: 408; Mayr, 1863a: 405; Roger, 1863b: 38; Emery, 1890b: 68; Dalla Torre, 1893: 142; Forel, 1895b: 133; Emery, 1896h: 626; Emery, 1906c: 170; Forel, 1906d: 235; Forel, 1908: 354; Wheeler, 1911g: 175; Stitz, 1913: 207; Bruch, 1914: 218; Emery, 1914b: 39; Emery, 1915g: 192; Mann, 1916: 449; Wheeler, 1916f: 326; Santschi, 1916e: 283; Crawley, 1916b: 377; Luederwaldt, 1918: 40; Wheeler, 1922e: 11; Wheeler, 1923a: 4; Emery, 1924f: 304; Borgmeier, 1927c: 114; Santschi, 1929d: 301; Kempf, 1951: 136 (redescription); Kempf, 1958a: 10; Kempf, 1972b: 260; Kempf, 1973c: 456 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 425; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 286 (redescription); Wild, 2007b: 31; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 115; Sandoval-Gómez & Sánchez-Restrepo, 2019: 910.; Oliveira et al., 2021: 23 (in list).

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus clypeatus

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