• Combination in Eciton: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 179
• Status as species: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 179 (redescription); Smith, 1855c: 162.
• Junior synonym of Eciton hamatum: Shuckard, 1840e: 174; Smith, 1858a: 148; Mayr, 1863a: 409; Roger, 1863b: 36; Dalla Torre, 1893: 3; Forel, 1899b: 23; Emery, 1910b: 20; Borgmeier, 1923: 38; Borgmeier, 1955: 214; Kempf, 1972b: 102; Bolton, 1995b: 184.

Obsolete combinations

• Formica curvidentata

Citations

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