Taxonomic history
De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999 PDF: 149 (s.q.m.).Combination in Eucryptocerus: Kempf, 1951 PDF: 131.Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999 PDF: 147.Junior synonym of Cephalotes placidus: Kempf, 1959a PDF: 92; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 107; Bolton, 1995b: 189.Status as species: Kempf, 1951 PDF: 131; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999 PDF: 147 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015 PDF: 116; Sandoval-Gómez & Sánchez-Restrepo, 2019 PDF: 912.Senior synonym of Cephalotes abdominalis: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999 PDF: 147.
