• Combination in Cheliomyrmex: Wheeler, 1921d: 324
• Subspecies of Cheliomyrmex morosus: Emery, 1900e: 177 (in key); Forel, 1901m: 49; Emery, 1910b: 23; Wheeler, 1921d: 324.
• Junior synonym of Cheliomyrmex morosus: Borgmeier, 1955: 63; Kempf, 1972b: 77; Bolton, 1995b: 145.

Obsolete combinations

• Eciton morosum payarum

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3:1-720. PDF
• Emery, C. 1900e. Nuovi studi sul genere Eciton. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (5)8:173-188 [pagination of separate: 511-526]. PDF
• Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102:1-34. PDF
• Forel, A. 1899d. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:25-56. PDF
• Forel, A. 1901m. Formiciden des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Neue Calyptomyrmex-, Dacryon-, Podomyrma- und Echinopla-Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 18:43-82. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1921d. Observations on army ants in British Guiana. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 56:291-328. PDF