original descriptionAttems, C. M. T. Graf von (1936). Diplopoda of India. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 11(4): 133-323. Calcutta page(s): 241 [details]
additional sourceJeekel, C. A. W. (2007). An annotated bibliographical catalogue of the Indo-Australian Platyrhacidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). <em>Myriapod memoranda.</em> 10: 49-101. page(s): 60; note: Attems was not aware of the publication of the extensive description of P. bouvieri by Brolemann in 1904. Otherwise he would probably not have described his material as a new species and compared it w...
Attems was not aware of the publication of the extensive description of P. bouvieri by Brolemann in 1904. Otherwise he would probably not have described his material as a new species and compared it with P. verrucosus from Sumatra. It is remarkable that P. modestior was
not mentioned in the Tierreich monograph of 1938.