• Cryptoceridae as group of Myrmicidae: Smith, 1853: 214 [Cryptoceridae].
• Cryptocerinae as subfamily of Formicidae: Smith, 1857a: 79 [Cryptoceridae]; Smith, 1860c: 74 [Cryptoceridae]; Smith, 1861b: 49 [Cryptoceridae]; Smith, 1862b: 35 [Cryptoceridae]; Smith, 1862d: 408 [Cryptoceridae]; Smith, 1867: 523 [Cryptoceridae]; Emery, 1875b: 470 [Criptoceridei].
• Cryptocerinae as subfamily of Poneridae: Smith, 1858a: 187 [Cryptoceridae].
• Cryptoceridae as family: Smith, 1860a: 75 [Cryptoceridae]; Smith, 1862a: 49 [Cryptoceridae]; Smith, 1862d: 408 [Cryptoceridae]; Smith, 1871a: 334 [Cryptoceridae]; Ashmead, 1905c: 383 [Cryptoceridae].
• Cryptoceridae as group of Myrmicinae: Emery, 1877b: 72 [Cryptoceridae].
• Cryptocerinae as junior synonym of Myrmicinae: Emery & Forel, 1879: 456 [Cryptoceridae].
• Cryptocerini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Forel, 1891c: 143 [Cryptocerini]; Forel, 1892d: 345 [Cryptocerini]; Forel, 1893b: 164 [Cryptocerii]; Emery, 1894h: 383 [Cryptocerinae]; Forel, 1895b: 132 [Cryptocerii]; Emery, 1895d: 325 [Cryptocerii]; Emery, 1895l: 763 [Cryptocerii]; Forel, 1899d: 43 [Cryptocerii]; Sharp, 1899: 169 [Cryptocerini]; Forel, 1908a: 66 [Cryptocerii]; Wheeler, 1910a: 141 [Cryptocerii]; Forel, 1892d: 344 [Cryptocerini]; Emery, 1914e: 39 [Cryptocerini]; Emery, 1915g: 192 [Cryptocerini]; Wheeler, 1915f: 491 [Cryptoceriini (in text)]; Forel, 1917: 246 [Cryptocerini]; Wheeler, 1922: 665 [Cryptocerini]; Emery, 1924f: 299 [Cryptocerini]; subsequent authors; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 59 [Cryptocerini]; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 [Cryptocerini].
• Cryptocerini as junior synonym of Cephalotini: Smith, 1949c: 18; Kempf, 1951: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 10; Bolton, 2003: 56, 194.
• [Note: Cephalotini retains priority over Cryptocerini under Article 40.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (4th Edition), 1999: 46.]
• Cryptocerini as junior synonym of Attini: Ward et al., 2015: 77.

Obsolete classifications

• Cryptoceridae

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