• [Misspelled as latreillei by Roger, 1863b: 41; Dalla Torre, 1893: 4, and many others.]
• Combination in Eciton: Dalla Torre, 1893: 4
• Status as species: Latreille, 1809: 123; Latreille, 1810: 437; Leach, 1815: 147; Latreille, 1817f: 141; Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835: 229; Haliday, 1836: 328; Westwood, 1842: 75; Smith, 1859c: 5; Roger, 1863b: 41; Forel, 1886a: 217; Dalla Torre, 1893: 4; Forel, 1895b: 120.
• Junior synonym of Labidus coecus: Emery, 1895d: 258; Emery, 1900e: 186, 193; Wheeler & Long, 1901: 158; Wheeler, 1908h: 408; Emery, 1910b: 22; Wheeler, 1911g: 165; Santschi, 1913h: 35; Gallardo, 1920: 326; Borgmeier, 1923: 41; Creighton, 1950a: 63; Borgmeier, 1955: 86; Kempf, 1972b: 127; Smith, 1979: 1328; Bolton, 1995b: 220.

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