original description
Cook, O. F. (1896). Cryptodesmus and its allies. Brandtia (A series of occasional papers an Diplopoda and other Arthropoda), 5: 19-28, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52583870
page(s): 23 [details]
original description
(of Phenacoporus Attems, 1914) Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1914). Die indo-australischen Myriopoden. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 80A(4): 1-398. Berlin., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13260451
page(s): 165 [details]
redescription
Golovatch, S.I. (2015). Review of the Millipede Genus Ophrydesmus Cook, 1896, with the Description of a New Species from Southern Vietnam (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Cryptodesmidae). <em>Tropical Natural History.</em> 15(2): 155–165., available online at https://tci-thaijo.org/index.php/tnh/article/view/103079
page(s): p. 158; note: Golovatch (2015) provided more information on the genus, including diagnosis and description. [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark Cryptodesmidae with gonopod telopodite devoid of a prefemoral process at base, usually stout, clearly twisted and tripartite, with an anterior and a posterior branch/lobe, normally between these also with a considerable, simple, spiniform, recurved solenomere terminating a strongly
sigmoid seminal groove; neither an accessory seminal chamber nor a hairy pulvillus. [details]