• Ecphorella in Dolichoderinae, Tapinomini: Emery, 1913a: 42; Forel, 1917: 248; all subsequent authors except those below; then Ward et al., 2010: 361.
• Ecphorella in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini: Shattuck, 1992c: 85; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 2003: 87.
• Ecphorella as subgenus of Tapinoma: Forel, 1917: 248; Wheeler, 1910a: 142; Emery, 1913a: 42; Wheeler, 1922: 690.
• Ecphorella as genus: Brown, 1973b: 169 [provisional genus]; Shattuck, 1992c: 85; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 2003: 87.

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