• Combination in Ooceraea: Borowiec, 2016: 198
• Subspecies of Ooceraea crypta: Wheeler, 1935g: 8.
• Status as species: Wilson, 1959d: 55; Brown, 1975: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 143; Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 26; Zhou et al., 2020: 142 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

• Cerapachys cryptus fuscior
• Cerapachys fuscior

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borowiec, M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608:1-280. 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF
• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
• Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64:401-499. PDF
• Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
• Wilson, E. O. 1959d. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. VI. The tribe Cerapachyini. Pacific Insects 1:39-57. PDF
• Zhou, S. Y.; Chen, D. N.; Chen, Z. L. 2020. Discovery of novel Ooceraea (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) species with 8-segmented antennae from China. Sociobiology 67 (2):139-143. 10.13102/sociobiology.v67i2.3740 PDF