original description
Cook, O. F.; Loomis, H. F. (1924). A new family of spined millipeds from Central China. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 14(5): 103-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/50532
page(s): 104; note: introduced family group name Hylomidae [details]
basis of record
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): 224 [details]
additional source
Srisonchai R, Enghoff H, Likhitrakarn N & Panha S. (2018). A revision of dragon millipedes I: genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, with the description of eight new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). <em>Zookeys.</em> (761): 1-177., available online at http://doi: 10.3897/zookeys.761.24214
page(s): pages 10-11; note: A total of 33 species were tranferred to the genus Hylomus. [details]
additional source
Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 169 [details]
source of synonymy
Golovatch, S. I.; Enghoff, H. (1994). Review of the dragon millipede, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Steenstrupia, 20(2): 1-71. Copenhagen
page(s): 46 [details]
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