original description
Loomis, H. F. (1944). Millipeds principally collected by Professor V. E. Shelford in the eastern and southeastern United States. Psyche, 51(3-4): 166-177
page(s): 171 [details]
additional source
Causey, N. B. (1955). New records and descriptions of polydesmoid millipeds (order Polydesmida) from the eastern United States. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 68: 21-30
page(s): 24 [details]
additional source
Shelley, R. M. (1984). Revision of the milliped genus Cheiropus (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 97(2): 263-284
page(s): 267 [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., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/63590410
page(s): 314 [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): 253 [details]
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