• Combination in Eciton (Acamatus): Emery, 1900e: 187.
• Combination in Neivamyrmex: Borgmeier, 1953: 357.
• Status as species: Emery, 1910b: 25; Borgmeier, 1955: 357 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 154; Watkins, 1976: 21 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 288; Palacio, 1999: 158 (in key); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 110; Palacio, 2019: 620.
• Senior synonym of Neivamyrmex leptognathus mesognathum: Borgmeier, 1955: 357; Kempf, 1972b: 154; Bolton, 1995b: 288.

Junior synonyms

• Neivamyrmex leptognathus mesognathum (Santschi, 1920)
  Obsolete combination(s): Eciton leptognathum mesognathum

Obsolete combinations

• Eciton falciferum

Citations

• Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. PDF
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1953. Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der neotropischen Wanderameisen. Studia Entomologica 2:1-51. PDF
• Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3:1-720. PDF
• 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]. PDF
• Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102:1-34. PDF
• Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
• Palacio, E. 1999. Hormigas legionarias (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ecitoninae) de Colombia. Pp. 117-189 in: Amat-G., G.; Andrade-C., M. G.; Fernández, F. (eds.) 1999. Insectos de Colombia. Volumen II. Bogotá: Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 433 pp.
• Palacio, E. E. 2019. Subfamilia Dorylinae. Capítulo 19. Pp. 571-630 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
• Watkins, J. F., II 1976. The identification and distribution of New World army ants (Dorylinae: Formicidae). Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 102 pp. PDF