• Nycteresia in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 714 [Poneridae].
• Nycteresia as genus: Mayr, 1863a: 436; Roger, 1863b: 21.
• Nycteresia as junior synonym of Eciton: Mayr, 1865: 76; Dalla Torre, 1893: 1; Forel, 1899b: 22.
• Nycteresia as junior synonym of Labidus: Emery, 1910b: 21; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 675; Borgmeier, 1955: 80; Kempf, 1972b: 126; Smith, 1979: 1328; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Bolton, 1995b: 39; Bolton, 2003: 144; Borowiec, 2016: 144.

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