• Ooceraea in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 24 [Myrmicidae].
• Ooceraea in Poneridae: Smith, 1871b: 324.
• Ooceraea in Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae: Emery, 1877b: 81.
• Ooceraea in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 17 [Ponerinae].
• Ooceraea in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893b: 162; Emery, 1911e: 10.
• Ooceraea in Dorylinae, Cerapachyini: Emery, 1895l: 765; Emery, 1901b: 34.
• Ooceraea in Dorylidae, Ecitoninae, Aenictini: Ashmead, 1905c: 381; Ashmead, 1906: 25.
• Ooceraea in Dorylinae: Emery, 1896e: 175 [Dorylinae]; Brady et al., 2014: 4 (in figure); Borowiec, 2016: 191.
• Ooceraea as subgenus of Cerapachys: Emery, 1902c: 24; Wheeler, 1902e: 185; Forel, 1907d: 8; Wheeler, 1910a: 137; Emery, 1911e: 10; Forel, 1917: 239; Wheeler, 1922: 639; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 678.
• Ooceraea as junior synonym of Cerapachys: Brown, 1973b: 183 [provisional]; Brown, 1975: 19; Ogata, 1987a: 129; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 40; Tang et al., 1995: 25; Bolton, 2003: 140.
• Ooceraea as genus: Roger, 1862a: 248; Mayr, 1863a: 439; Roger, 1863b: 25; Mayr, 1865: 24; Smith, 1871a: 324; Dalla Torre, 1893: 17; Emery, 1896e: 175; Forel, 1900f: 329; Bingham, 1903: 31; Ashmead, 1905c: 381; Borowiec, 2016: 191.
• Ooceraea as senior synonym of Cysias: Borowiec, 2016: 191.

Junior synonyms

• Cysias Emery, 1902
  Obsolete classification(s): Cerapachys (Cysias)

Obsolete classifications

• Cerapachys (Ooceraea)

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