original descriptionChamberlin, R. V. (1945). On some Diplopods from the Indo-Australian Archipelago. American Museum Novitates, 1282: 1-43. NewYork page(s): 20 [details]
source of synonymyShear, W. A. (2002). The milliped genus Metopidiothrix Attems (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Metopidiotrichidae). Invertebrate Systematics, 16: 849-892 page(s): 859 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality