original description
Loomis, H. F. (1950). Synonymy of some native American and introduced millipeds. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 40: 164-166
page(s): 166; note: new name for Melanodesmus Loomis, 1941, preoccupied by Melanodesmus Carl, 1914 [details]
original description
(of Melanodesmus Loomis, 1941) Loomis, H. F. (1941). Millipeds collected in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic by Dr. P. J. Darlington in 1938. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 88(2): 17-80. Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
page(s): 73 [details]
additional source
Hoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584.
page(s): 487 [details]
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