• Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 20 (q.m.)
• Combination in Cyphomyrmex (Mycetophylax): Emery, 1913c: 251.
• Combination in Mycetophylax: Kempf, 1972b: 146.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 150; von Jhering, 1894: 385; Forel, 1895b: 138; Emery, 1924f: 343; Borgmeier, 1927c: 127; Kempf, 1972b: 146; Brandão, 1991: 358; Bolton, 1995b: 269; Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 19 (redescription); Cardoso et al., 2014: 380; Sosa-Calvo et al., 2017: 9.

Obsolete combinations

• Cyphomyrmex simplex

Citations

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