original description
Brandt, J. F. (1833). Tentaminum quorundam monographicorum Insecta Myriapoda Chilognathi Latreillii spectantium prodromus. Bulletin de la Societé Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 6: 194-209. Moscow, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989137
page(s): 199 [details]
taxonomy 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): 28 [details]
additional source
Wesener, T. (2016). The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida –
An annotated species catalogue
with morphological atlas
and list of apomorphies. <em>Bonn zoological Bulletin Supplementum.</em> 63: 1-107., available online at https://zoologicalbulletin.de/bzb_volumes/bzm_63/bzm_63.pdf
page(s): 1; note: Catalogue [details]
source of synonymy
Jeekel, C. A. W. (1974). The group taxonomy and geography of the Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda). Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 32: 41-52. London
page(s): 46 [details]
redescription
Wesener, T. (2016). Redescription and phylogenetic analysis of the type species of the giant pill-millipede genus Sphaeropoeus Brandt, 1833 (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4184(1): 141-157., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.9
page(s): 141; note: redescription and phylogeny [details]
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