Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype male. Type-locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina (no collector’s name). Type-depository: unknown (perhaps MNHN).
Type notes:
This taxon was based on a specimen described as Labidus latreilliiJurine, 1807, by Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 229, misidentification.
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].