• Kempf, 1973c: 453 (s.q.)
• Combination in Cephalotes: Emery, 1914b: 39.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Emery, 1915g: 192; Emery, 1924f: 305; Kempf, 1951: 141.
• Combination in Cephalotes: Baroni Urbani, 1998b: 326; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 294.
• Status as species: Guérin-Méneville, 1844a: 426; Smith, 1853: 217; Smith, 1858a: 192; Smith, 1862d: 410; Mayr, 1863a: 406; Roger, 1863b: 38; Dalla Torre, 1893: 143; Forel, 1895b: 134; Forel, 1912f: 199; Emery, 1914b: 39; Emery, 1924f: 305; Borgmeier, 1927c: 114; Borgmeier, 1937b: 244; Kempf, 1951: 141 (redescription); Kempf, 1958a: 135; Kempf, 1963c: 438; Kempf, 1964b: 254; Kempf, 1972b: 260; Kempf, 1973c: 453 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 389; Bolton, 1995b: 426; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 294 (redescription); Oliveira et al., 2021: 23 (in list).
• Senior synonym of Cephalotes fervidus: Kempf, 1958a: 135; Kempf, 1963c: 438; Kempf, 1972b: 260; Kempf, 1973c: 453; Bolton, 1995b: 426; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 294; Oliveira et al., 2021: 23 (in list).

Junior synonyms

• Cephalotes fervidus (Smith, 1876)
  Obsolete combination(s): Cryptocerus fervidus

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus membranaceus

Citations

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