• Combination in Calyptomyrmex (Dicroaspis): Wheeler, 1922: 887.
• Combination in Dicroaspis: Bolton, 1981a: 58.
• Status as species: Wasmann, 1918b: 145; Wheeler, 1922: 887; Emery, 1924f: 225; Bolton, 1981a: 58 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 171.
• Senior synonym of Dicroaspis wheeleri: Bolton, 1981a: 58; Bolton, 1995b: 171.

Junior synonyms

• Dicroaspis wheeleri (Menozzi, 1924)
  Obsolete combination(s): Geognomicus wheeleri

Obsolete combinations

• Calyptomyrmex cryptocerus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1981a. A revision of the ant genera Meranoplus F. Smith, Dicroaspis Emery and Calyptomyrmex Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 42:43-81. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Emery, C. 1908c. Descriptions d'une genre nouveau et de plusieurs formes nouvelles de fourmis du Congo. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 52:184-189. PDF
• Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
• Wasmann, E. 1918b. Ueber die von v. Rothkirch, 1912, in Kamerun gesammelten Myrmekophilen. Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 7:135-149. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.