• Lectotype designation: Borgmeier, 1955: 630.
• [Misspelled as Eciton minus by Dalla Torre, 1893: 4; Emery, 1895d: 261; Creighton, 1950a: 73, and others.]
• Combination in Eciton (Labidus): Mayr, 1886d: 441.
• Combination in Eciton (Acamatus): Emery, 1900e: 187.
• Combination in Eciton (Neivamyrmex): Smith, 1942c: 574.
• Combination in Neivamyrmex: Borgmeier, 1953: 8.
• Status as species: Mayr, 1886d: 441 (redescription); Cresson, 1887: 259; Dalla Torre, 1893: 4; Emery, 1895d: 261; Forel, 1899b: 29; Emery, 1900e: 178 (in key); Wheeler, 1908h: 418; Emery, 1910b: 27; Wheeler, 1910a: 562; Borgmeier, 1936b: 63; Smith, 1938b: 158; Smith, 1942c: 574 (redescription); Creighton, 1950a: 73; Smith, 1951c: 780; Borgmeier, 1955: 630 (redescription); Smith, 1958c: 109; Cole, 1966b: 26; Watkins, 1972: 352 (in key); Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 21; Watkins, 1976: 25 (in key); Smith, 1979: 1331; Snelling & George, 1979: 29; Watkins, 1982: 214 (in key); Watkins, 1985: 484 (in key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 20; Bolton, 1995b: 290; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 60; Ward, 2005: 62; Snelling & Snelling, 2007: 481.

Obsolete combinations

• Labidus minor

Citations

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