original descriptionCook, O. F. (1896). A new diplopod fauna in Liberia. American Naturalist, 30: 413-420 page(s): 419 [details]
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additional sourceMoritz, 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): 134 [details]
additional sourceSilvestri, F. (1927). Contribuzione alla conoscenza dei Polydesmidae (Diplopoda) dell'Africa occidentale. Bollettino del Laboratorio di zoologia generale e agraria della FacoltĂ agraria in Portici, 20: 282-323. Portici page(s): 297 [details]
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source of synonymyJeekel, 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): 330 [details]
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