original description
Silvestri, F. (1896). I Diplopodi. Parte I. - Sistematica. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, serie 2, 16: 121-254, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7697911
page(s): 197 [details]
taxonomy source
Chamberlin, R. V. (1952). An arrangement of the Prepodesmidae, a family of African millipeds. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 42: 327-333., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39697689
page(s): 327; note: placed in Prepodesmidae, Prepodesminae [details]
taxonomy source
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1938). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea II. Fam. Leptodesmidae, Platyrhachidae, Oxydesmidae, Gomphodesmidae. Das Tierreich, 69: 1-487. Berlin
page(s): 371; note: placed in Cordyloporinae [details]
taxonomy source
Demange, J.-M.; Mauriès, J.-P. (1975). Myriapodes - Diplopodes des Monts Nimba et Tonkoui (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinée) récoltés par M. Lamotte et ses collaborateurs de 1942 à 1961. <em>Annalen, Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika - Zoologische wetenschappen.</em> 212: 1-192. Tervuren.
page(s): 139; note: placed in Cordyloporinae [details]
taxonomy source
Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 155; note: subfamily Prepodesminae [details]
additional source
Jeekel, C. A. W. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412. Amsterdam, available online at https://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf
page(s): 259 [details]
additional source
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1899). System der Polydesmiden. II. Theil. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klassen, 68: 251-436, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35890675
page(s): 311 [details]
additional source
Verhoeff, K. W. (1938). Zur Kenntnis der Oxydesmiden. (Nach Objekten des Münchner Zoologischen Museums.). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 124(7): 161-174. Leipzig
page(s): 166 [details]
additional source
Cook, O. F. (1896). On the Xyodesmidae, a new family. Brandtia (A series of occasional papers an Diplopoda and other Arthropoda), 4: 15-17
page(s): 16 [details]
source of synonymy
VandenSpiegel, D.; Golovatch, S. I.; Mauriès, J.-P. (2016). Review of the western African millipede genus Diaphorodesmus Silvestri, 1896 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae), with the description of a similar, but new monotypic genus from Cameroon. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 600: 7-24.
page(s): 8 [details] Available for editors 
identification resource
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1937). Polydesmoidea des Belgischen Congo. I. Nachtrag. Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines, 30(1): 19-70. Bruxelles
page(s): 41; note: in key [details]
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