• Status as species: Cresson, 1887: 259.
• Junior synonym of Neivamyrmex pilosus mexicanus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 4; Forel, 1899b: 27; Wheeler, 1908h: 414; Emery, 1910b: 26; Smith, 1931b: 297; Borgmeier, 1955: 361; Smith, 1958c: 109; Kempf, 1972b: 158; Smith, 1979: 1332; Bolton, 1995b: 291.
• Junior synonym of Neivamyrmex pilosus: Smith, 1942c: 544; Creighton, 1950a: 76; Smith, 1951c: 781; Snelling & Snelling, 2007: 488

Obsolete combinations

• Eciton subsulcatum

Citations

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