• Combination in Eciton (Labidus): Emery, 1910b: 23.
• Combination in Labidus: Borgmeier, 1953: 6.
• Subspecies of Labidus praedator: Santschi, 1925b: 11.
• Status as species: Emery, 1910b: 23; Borgmeier, 1936b: 58.
• Subspecies of Labidus coecus: Borgmeier, 1953: 6.
• Junior synonym of Labidus coecus: Borgmeier, 1955: 86; Kempf, 1972b: 127; Smith, 1979: 1328; Bolton, 1995b: 220.

Obsolete combinations

• Eciton nigrita
• Labidus nigrita

Citations

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
• Borgmeier, T. 1936b. Sobre algumas formigas dos generos Eciton e Cheliomyrmex (Hym. Formicidae). Archivos do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal (Rio de Janeiro) 3:51-68. PDF
• 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. 1901d. Note sulle Doriline. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 33:43-56. 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
• Santschi, F. 1925b ("1924"). Nouvelles fourmis brésiliennes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 64:5-20. PDF
• Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.