• Lectotype designation: Kempf, 1958a: 133.
• De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 578 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954b: 157 (l.)
• Combination in Paracryptocerus (Harnedia): Kempf, 1958a: 132.
• Combination in Zacryptocerus: Hespenheide, 1986: 395.
• Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 574.
• Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 310; Wheeler, 1942: 208; Kempf, 1958a: 132 (redescription); Snelling, 1968a: 9 (in key); Kempf, 1972b: 181; Brandão, 1991: 389; Bolton, 1995b: 427; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 574 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

• Cryptocerus wheeleri

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. 1901d. I. Fourmis mexicaines récoltées par M. le professeur W.-M. Wheeler. II. A propos de la classification des fourmis. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:123-141. PDF
• Hespenheide, H. A. 1986. Mimicry of ants of the genus Zacryptocerus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 94:394-408.
• 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
• Snelling, R. R. 1968a. Taxonomic notes on some Mexican cephalotine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 132:1-10. PDF
• Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1954b. The ant larvae of the myrmicine tribes Cataulacini and Cephalotini. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 44:149-157. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF