• Ecitoninae as subfamily of Dorylidae: Ashmead, 1905c: 381; Ashmead, 1906: 23.
• Ecitoninae as subfamily of Formicidae: Brown, 1973b: 166; Snelling, 1981: 392; Bolton, 1990c: 1357; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; all subsequent authors.
• Ecitoninae as dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Bolton, 2003: 34, 142; Brady & Ward, 2005: 593.
• Ecitoninae as formicoid subfamily of Formicidae: Moreau et al., 2006: 102.
• Ecitoninae as formicoid dorylomorph subfamily of Formicidae: Brady et al., 2006: 18173; Ward, 2007c: 555.
• Ecitoninae as junior synonym of Dorylinae: Brady et al., 2014: 5

Obsolete classifications

• Ecitonini

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