• Myrmicocrypta in Formicidae, Attidae: Smith, 1860c: 73.
• Myrmicocrypta in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 25 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 150 [Myrmicinae].
• Myrmicocrypta in Cryptoceridae, Attinae: Ashmead, 1905c: 383.
• Myrmicocrypta in Myrmicinae, Attini: Forel, 1893b: 164; Emery, 1895l: 770; Emery, 1896e: 181; Forel, 1899d: 38; Wheeler, 1910a: 141; Emery, 1913c: 251; Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 335; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1995b: 37; Bolton, 2003: 57, 200; Ward et al., 2015: 77.
• Myrmicocrypta as genus: all authors.
• Myrmicocrypta senior synonym of Glyptomyrmex: Emery, 1894d: 224; Forel, 1899d: 38; Ashmead, 1905c: 383; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 336; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 647; Kempf, 1972b: 151; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 37; Bolton, 2003: 200.
• [Myrmecocrypta: incorrrect subsequent spelling by Luederwaldt, 1918: 39.]
• [Myrmicocryptus: incorrect subsequent spelling by Ashmead, 1905c: 383.]

Junior synonyms

• Glyptomyrmex Forel, 1885

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