original description
Verhoeff, K. W. (1938). Über Diplopoden des Zoologischen Museums in München. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere, 71(1-2): 1-54. Jena
page(s): 4; note: plate 1 figs 1-4 [details]
additional source
Jeekel, C. A. W. (1952). Milliped miscellany. Entomologische Berichten, 14(323): 71-77. Amsterdam
page(s): 73; note: synonymized M. venezuelanus and Dromodesmus celer under Alocodesmus gracilicornis [details]
additional source
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): 272 [details]
additional source
Moritz, M.; Fischer, S.-C. (1978). Die Typen der Myriapoden-Sammlung des Zoologischen Museums Berlin. I. Diplopoda. Teil 4: Polydesmida. Teil 5: Ergänzungen. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 54(1): 99-160. Berlin
page(s): 131; note: listed in type catalog, not a generic transfer [details]
new combination reference
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1940). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea III. Fam. Polydesmidae, Vanhoeffeniidae, Cryptodesmidae, Oniscodesmidae, Sphaerotrichopidae, Periodontodesmidae, Rhachidesmidae, Macellolophidae, Pandirodesmidae. Das Tierreich, 70: 1-577. Berlin
page(s): 551, fig 699; note: synonymized genus Maracayopus under Alocodesmus [details]
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