Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: none given, “Amérique méridionale”. Type-depository: possibly MHNG, possibly 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].