• Ocymyrmex in Myrmicinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 72.
• Ocymyrmex in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l: 769; Wheeler, 1910a: 139.
• Ocymyrmex in Myrmicinae, Ocymyrmecini: Emery, 1914e: 41; Arnold, 1916: 194; Forel, 1917: 245; Wheeler, 1922: 664; Emery, 1924f: 270; all subsequent authors to the following.
• Ocymyrmex in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1281; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1994: 106.
• Ocymyrmex in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.

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