• Lectotype designation: Watkins, 1975d: 89.
• [Acamatus fuscipennis Wheeler, 1908h: 417. Nomen nudum (attributed to Cresson).]
• Combination in Neivamyrmex: Borgmeier, 1953: 18
• Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 71; Smith, 1951c: 780; Borgmeier, 1955: 642 (redescription); Smith, 1958c: 109; Smith, 1967a: 345; Watkins, 1972: 351 (in key); Watkins, 1975d: 85; Watkins, 1976: 23 (in key); Smith, 1979: 1330; Watkins, 1982: 213 (in key); Watkins, 1985: 484 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 289; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 56; Snelling & Snelling, 2007: 469.
• Senior synonym of Neivamyrmex macropterus: Snelling & Snelling, 2007: 469

Junior synonyms

• Neivamyrmex macropterus Borgmeier, 1953

Obsolete combinations

• Eciton fuscipennis

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
• Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
• Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
• Smith, M. R. 1942c. The legionary ants of the United States belonging to Eciton subgenus Neivamyrmex Borgmeier. American Midland Naturalist 27:537-590. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
• Smith, M. R. 1967a. Family Formicidae. Pp. 343-374 in: Krombein, K. V.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1967. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalog. Second supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 2):1-584. PDF
• Snelling, G. C.; Snelling, R. R. 2007. New synonymy, new species, new keys to Neivamyrmex army ants of the United States. Pp. 459-550 in: Snelling, R. R.; Fisher, B. L.; Ward, P. S. (eds.) 2007. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E.O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80:690 pp. PDF
• Watkins, J. F., II 1972. The taxonomy of Neivamyrmex texanus, n. sp., N. nigrescens and N. californicus (Formicidae: Dorylinae), with distribution map and keys to the species of Neivamyrmex of the United States. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 45:347-372. PDF
• Watkins, J. F., II 1975d. The relationship of Neivamyrmex fuscipennis to N. macropterus (Dorylinae: Formicidae). The Southwestern Naturalist 20:85-90. 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
• Watkins, J. F., II 1985. The identification and distribution of the army ants of the United States of America (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ecitoninae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 58:479-502. PDF
• Wheeler, W. M. 1908h. The ants of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. (Part I.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:399-485. PDF