Loomis, H. F. (1937). Crested millipeds of the family Lysiopetalidae in North America, with Descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 84(3006): 97-135. Washington page(s): 132; note: figs 18f-j, plate 4, figs 3, 4 [details]
original descriptionLoomis, H. F. (1937). Crested millipeds of the family Lysiopetalidae in North America, with Descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 84(3006): 97-135. Washington page(s): 132; note: figs 18f-j, plate 4, figs 3, 4 [details]
original description(ofHeptium canum Chamberlin, 1941)Chamberlin, R. V. (1941). New American Millipeds. <em>Bulletin of the University of Utah 31(11), Biological Series.</em> 6(4): 1-39. Salt Lake City. page(s): 22; note: plate 5, figs 42-44 [details]
taxonomy sourceJeekel, 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 athttps://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf page(s): 98 [details]
additional sourceStoev, P.; Sierwald, P.; Billey, A. (2008). An annotated world catalogue of the millipede order Callipodida (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). Zootaxa, 1706: 1-50 page(s): 36 [details]
additional sourceChamberlin, R. V.; Hoffman, R. L. (1958). Checklist of the millipeds of North America. United States National Museum Bulletin, 212: 1-236. Washington D. C. page(s): 113 [details]
additional sourceHoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584. page(s): 202 [details]
source of synonymyShelley, R. M. (1996). The milliped order Callipodida in western North America (Schizopetalidae: Tynommatinae), and a summary of the New World fauna. Entomologica scandinavica, 27: 25-64. Lund page(s): 37; note: figs 17-19, synonymized H. canum under H. carinellum [details]
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