original description
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1909). Äthiopische Myriopoden. Gesammelt von Prof. O. Naumann und K. v. Erlanger. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere.</em> 27(4): 391-418. Jena.
page(s): 412 [details]
additional source
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1914). Afrikanische Spirostreptiden nebst Überblick über die Spirostreptiden orbis terrarum. <em>Zoologica (Stuttgart).</em> 25(65-66): 1-235. Stuttgart., available online at https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Zoologica_25_65-66_0001-0233.pdf
page(s): 125 [details] 
additional source
Krabbe, E. (1982). Systematik der Spirostreptidae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptomorpha). Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (N.F.), 24: 1-476. Hamburg
page(s): 417-418, fig. 266 [details]
additional source
Manfredi, P. (1936). Miriapodi della Somalia Italiana. Diplopodi. Atti della Società italiana di scienze naturali, e del Museo civile di storia naturale, 75: 243-262. Milano
page(s): 257 [details]
additional source
Moritz, M.; Fischer, S.-C. (1974). Die Typen der Myriapoden-Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 2: Craspedosomatida, Stemmiulida, Spirostreptida. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 50(2): 323-375. Berlin
page(s): 353 [details]
additional source
Hoffman, R. L. (1993). Biogeography of East African montane forest millipedes. In: Lovett, Jon C.; Wasser, Samuel K. [Eds]. Biogeography and ecology of the rain forests of eastern Africa. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, England. 1993: i-ix, 1-341, 103-115
page(s): 107 [details]
additional source
Mwabvu, T.; VandenSpiegel, D. (2015). A review of the genus Obelostreptus Attems, 1909 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae) with the description of a new species from Kenya. <em>African Invertebrates.</em> 56 (1): 51-61., available online at https://africaninvertebrates.org/ojs/index.php/AI/article/viewFile/364/360
page(s): 53; note: No new material of O. acifer was available at the time of the study. How ever, based on material studied, the description of the species and illustrations of the
gonopods are accurate. [details]
source of synonymy
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): 131 [details]
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