• Ocymyrmex in Myrmicinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 72 [Myrmicinae]; Emery, 1896e: 185 [Myrmicinae].
• 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; subsequent authors.
• Ocymyrmex in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1281; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1994: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 40; Bolton, 2003: 64, 232.
• Ocymyrmex in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Ocymyrmex in Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini, Cataulacus genus group: Blaimer et al., 2018: 7.
• Ocymyrmex as genus: all authors.

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