original description
Schubart, O. (1947). Um novo representante da família "Leptodesmidae", "Macroxenodesmus marcusi" n. g., n. sp. - Diplopoda). Revista brasileira de biologia, 7(1): 109-112. Rio de Janeiro
page(s): 109; note: figs 1-4 [details]
additional source
Schubart, O. (1956). "Leptodesmidae" Brasileiras. III: Espécies de Minas Gerais (Diplopoda, Proterospermophora). Revista brasileira de biologia, 16(3): 355-367. Rio de Janeiro
page(s): 366 [details]
additional source
Hoffman, R. L. (1990). Chelodesmid studies. XXIII. Proposal of a new tribe for the disjunct Brasilian genus Macrocoxodesmus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae). Papéis avulsos do Departamento de zoologia, 37(11): 167-172. Sao Paulo
page(s): 171; note: figs 1-11 [details]
additional source
Pena-Barbosa, J. P. P.; Sierwald, P.; Brescovit, A. D. (2013). On the largest chelodesmid millipedes: taxonomic review and cladistic analysis of the genusOdontopeltis Pocock, 1894 (Diplopoda; Polydesmida; Chelodesmidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 169(4): 737-764., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12086
page(s): 738 [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): 271 [details]
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