Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: South America (“Amérique méridionale”) (no further data) (ex coll. Olivier). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MHNG or MNHN).
Type notes:
1) Type-locality nominated as Suriname: Paramaribo by Borgmeier, 1955: 87. 2) Latreille, 1802a: 271, says the specimen was “described from the collection of the naturalist Olivier.” According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 150, Horn & Kahle, 1936: 197, Olivier’s collection is mostly in MNHN, with part in NMSE. Latreille’s Hymenoptera material passed through the de Romand collection and ended up in MHNG.
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].