Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-locality: Panama: Canal Zone, Barro Colorado Island (by restriction of Borgmeier, 1955: 188). Type-depository: NHMW.
Type notes:Mayr, 1886b: 116 (in key), merely lists six countries, without further data.
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].