Ceratina laticeps Friese, 1910:697, ♀. Holotype ♀, San José (Costa Rica) (leg. Burgdorff). - Schwarz, 1934Schwarz, H.F. 1934. The solitary bees of Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 722:1-24. (distribution).
Ceratina laticeps Friese, 1921:88, ♂♀. ♂♂, ♀♀, Jussiaea, bei San José, Juli 1920 (leg. Schmidt). - Friese, 1916Friese, H. 1916. Zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 77:287-348. (distribution); Friese, 1921Friese, H. 1921. Nachtrag zur Bienenfauna von Costa Rica. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 82:74-98. (distribution); Cockerell, 1924Cockerell, T.D.A. 1924. Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Gulf of California in 1921. The bees (II). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 12 (27):529-560. (distribution); Cockerell, 1932Cockerell, T.D.A. 1932. Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) collected at Chichen Itzá, Yucatan, by the Harvard expeditions of 1929-1930. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 27:9-17. (distribution); Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176. (distribution).
Ceratina sublaticeps Schwarz, 1934:9, ♀. Holotype ♀, Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, Jan. 10, 1929 (American Museum, leg. C.H. Curran). - Michener, 1954Michener, C.D. 1954. Bees of Panamá. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 104 (1):1-176.:148 ( listed as synonym of Ceratina laticeps Friese, 1921).