original description
Carl, J. (1914). Die Diplopoden von Columbien nebst Beiträgen zur Morphologie der Stemmatoiuliden. Memoires de la Société neuchâteloise des Sciences naturelles, 5: 821-993. Neuchâtel
page(s): 901 [details]
taxonomy source
Hoffman, R. L. (1969). Chelodesmid studies. IV. A summary of the tribe Batodesmini, with the description of a new species of Biporodesmus from northwestern Brasil. <em>Papéis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia.</em> 22(25): 263-283. Sao Paulo.
page(s): 268 [details]
taxonomy source
Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 152; note: in tribe Batodesmini [details]
taxonomy source
Verhoeff, K. W. (1938). Über Diplopoden des Zoologischen Museums in München. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere, 71(1-2): 1-54. Jena
page(s): 3; note: lists Heteropeltis as a valid genus within “Alocodesmus-Gruppe [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): 126; note: lists Heteropeltis as a synonym under Alocodesmus [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): 266 [details]
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