• Lectotype designation: Kempf, 1951: 183.
• De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 167 (q.m.)
• Combination in Paracryptocerus (Paracryptocerus): Kempf, 1951: 183.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Brandão, 1991: 388.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 163.
• Subspecies of Cephalotes pusillus: Emery, 1924f: 307; Kempf, 1951: 183; Kempf, 1972b: 180; Brandão, 1991: 388; Bolton, 1995b: 425.
• Status as species: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 163 (redescription); Sandoval-Gómez & Sánchez-Restrepo, 2019: 910.

Obsolete combinations

• Atta columbica
• Cryptocerus pusillus columbica

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
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Forel, A. 1912f. Formicides néotropiques. Part II. 3me sous-famille Myrmicinae Lep. (Attini, Dacetii, Cryptocerini). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 19:179-209. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1951. A taxonomic study on the ant tribe Cephalotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 22:1-244. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Sandoval-Gómez, V. E.; Sánchez-Restrepo, A. F. 2019. Género Cephalotes. Capítulo 29. Pp. 899-915 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF