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Eciton melanocephalum xipe Wheeler, 1914:41 - Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:1331 ( listed as synonym of Neivamyrmex melanocephalus (Emery, 1895)).