• Combination in Neivamyrmex: Borgmeier, 1953: 8
• Status as species: Borgmeier, 1955: 526 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 154; Watkins, 1976: 12 (in key); Watkins, 1982: 215 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 288.

Obsolete combinations

• Eciton diabolus

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1953. Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der neotropischen Wanderameisen. Studia Entomologica 2:1-51. PDF
• Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3:1-720. PDF
• Forel, A. 1912d. Formicides néotropiques. Part I. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56:28-49. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. 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
• Watkins, J. F., II 1982. The army ants of Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ecitoninae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 55:197-247. PDF