• Combination in Cataulacus: Mayr, 1886c: 364.
• Combination in Procryptocerus: Emery, 1887f: 470 (footnote).
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 140; Emery, 1894d: 201; Forel, 1895b: 132; Forel, 1899b: 47.
• Junior synonym of Procryptocerus attenuatus: Forel, 1911g: 263; Emery, 1924f: 302; Kempf, 1951: 61; Kempf, 1963c: 436; Kempf, 1972b: 212; Bolton, 1995b: 367; Longino & Snelling, 2002: 6.

Obsolete combinations

• Meranoplus puncticeps

Citations

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