• Escherichia in Ponerinae, Proceratiini: Emery, 1911e: 53; Forel, 1917: 236; Wheeler, 1922: 645; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 644.
• Escherichia in Ponerinae, Platythyreini: Brown, 1952k: 1.
• Escherichia as genus: Emery, 1911e: 53; Forel, 1917: 236; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 644; Brown, 1952g: 6.
• Escherichia as junior synonym of Probolomyrmex: Taylor, 1965d: 346; Bolton, 1973a: 331; Ogata, 1987a: 104; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 29; Bolton, 2003: 180.

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