• Combination in Eciton (Acamatus): Emery, 1900e: 187.
• Combination in Neivamyrmex: Borgmeier, 1953: 6.
• Status as species: Emery, 1910b: 26; Borgmeier, 1955: 354 (redescription); Kempf, 1968b: 371; Kempf, 1972b: 156; Watkins, 1976: 21 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 289.

Obsolete combinations

• Eciton leptognathum

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
• 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
• Kempf, W. W. 1968b. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants. IV. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 11:369-415. 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