• Combination in Eciton (Acamatus): Emery, 1894d: 183 (in key).
• Combination in Neivamyrmex: Borgmeier, 1953: 10.
• Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 2; Emery, 1894d: 183 (in key); Forel, 1895b: 119; Emery, 1910b: 24; Borgmeier, 1939: 412; Borgmeier, 1953: 10; Borgmeier, 1955: 342 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 153; Watkins, 1976: 11 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 288; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 110; Palacio, 2019: 615.
• Senior synonym of Neivamyrmex legionis crenulatum: Borgmeier, 1953: 10; Borgmeier, 1955: 342; Kempf, 1972b: 153; Bolton, 1995b: 288.

Junior synonyms

• Neivamyrmex legionis crenulatum (Mann, 1916)
  Obsolete combination(s): Eciton legionis crenulatum

Obsolete combinations

• Eciton cristatum

Citations

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• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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• Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102:1-34. PDF
• Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Palacio, E. E. 2019. Subfamilia Dorylinae. Capítulo 19. Pp. 571-630 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
• Watkins, J. F., II 1976. The identification and distribution of New World army ants (Dorylinae: Formicidae). Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 102 pp. PDF