• Emery, 1895d: 258 (w.); Wheeler & Long, 1901: 161 (m.); Wheeler, 1943: 331 (l.)
• Status as species: Emery, 1895d: 258 (description); Pergande, 1896: 874; Forel, 1899b: 28; Wheeler & Long, 1901: 161; Wheeler, 1904f: 300; Wheeler, 1908h: 410; Emery, 1910b: 25; Wheeler, 1910a: 562; Essig, 1926: 869; Smith, 1930a: 2; Wheeler, 1932a: 2; Borgmeier, 1936b: 59; Dennis, 1938: 278.
• Junior synonym of Neivamyrmex nigrescens: Smith, 1938b: 160; Smith, 1942c: 550; Buren, 1944a: 280; Creighton, 1950a: 73; Smith, 1951c: 781; Borgmeier, 1953: 6; Borgmeier, 1955: 494; Kempf, 1972b: 157; Smith, 1979: 1331; Snelling & George, 1979: 31; Bolton, 1995b: 291; Ward, 1999a: 84; Coovert, 2005: 32; Snelling & Snelling, 2007: 485.

Obsolete combinations

• Eciton schmitti

Citations

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