• Lectotype designation: Shattuck, 2008c: 4.
• Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 13.
• Subspecies of Aenictus pachycerus: Karavaiev, 1927f: 6; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 59.
• Junior synonym of Aenictus aratus: Shattuck, 2008c: 4.

Obsolete combinations

• Aenictus bengalensis impressus
• Eciton impressum

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
• Karavaiev, V. 1927f. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. III. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu 3:3-52 [= Trudy. Ukrains'ka Akademiya Nauk. Fizichno-Matematichnoho Viddilu 7:3-52]. PDF
• Radchenko, A. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Esteves, F. A.; Martynova, E. V.; Bazhenova, T. N.; Lasarenko, S. N. 2023. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 1. Dorylinae, Poneromorpha and Pseudomyrmecinae. Zootaxa 5244 (1):1-32. 10.11646/zootaxa.5244.1.1 PDF
• Shattuck, S. O. 2008c. Review of the ant genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia with notes on A. ceylonicus (Mayr). Zootaxa 1926:1-19. PDF