original description
Silvestri, F. (1909). Descrizioni preliminari di varii Artropodi, specialmente d' America. III. Nuovi Chordeumoidea (Diplopoda). Rendiconti, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 5. Ser., 18: 229-233. Roma, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44698853
page(s): 232 [details]
original description
(of Rhiscosomides mineri Silvestri, 1909) Silvestri, F. (1909). Descrizioni preliminari di varii Artropodi, specialmente d' America. III. Nuovi Chordeumoidea (Diplopoda). Rendiconti, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 5. Ser., 18: 229-233. Roma, available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44698853
page(s): 232 [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.
page(s): 256 [details]
additional source
Shear, W. A. (1972). Studies in the milliped order Chordeumida (Diplopoda). A revision of the family Cleidogonidae and a reclassification of the order Chordeumida in the New World. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 144: 151-352. Cambridge
page(s): 261 [details]
additional source
Shear, W. A. (1973). The milliped family Rhiscosomididae (Diplopoda). Psyche, 80: 189-203. Lexington
page(s): 194 [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): 78 [details]
From editor or global species database
Spelling There have been two spellings of the specific epithet, Rhiscosomides meineri Silvestri, 1909 in the literature. The spelling "meineri" was used in the original description, and was correctly used in Chamberlin & Hoffman, 1958 and Jeekel, 1971. However, the spelling "mineri" was used by Silvestri, 1913, Shear, 1973, Hoffman, 1999, and Shelley et al., 2009. In the original description, Silvestri noted that he named the species after R. W. Miner of the AMNH, NY. [details]