• De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 467 (s.)
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 465
• Junior synonym of Cephalotes varians: Kempf, 1958a: 155; Kempf, 1972b: 181; Smith, 1979: 1403; Brandão, 1991: 389; Bolton, 1995b: 426.
• Status as species: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 465 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus varians jamaicensis

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
• Forel, A. 1922b. Glanures myrmécologiques en 1922. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 30:87-102. 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
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.