original description
Gervais, P. (1847). Myriapodes. In: Walckenaer, Hist. natur. des Insectes. Aptères IV, 4: 1-623. Paris, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32961491
page(s): 111 [details]
additional source
Brölemann, H. W. (1900). Myriapodes d'Amérique. Mémoires de la société zoologique de France, 13: 89-128. Paris, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10115590
page(s): 115; note: plate 7, figs 90, 91, as Polydesmus planus [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): 338 [details]
new combination reference
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1938). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea II. Fam. Leptodesmidae, Platyrhachidae, Oxydesmidae, Gomphodesmidae. Das Tierreich, 69: 1-487. Berlin
page(s): 133; note: Alocodesmus planus [details]
new combination reference
Carl, J. (1914). Die Diplopoden von Columbien nebst Beiträgen zur Morphologie der Stemmatoiuliden. Memoires de la Société neuchâteloise des Sciences naturelles, 5: 821-993. Neuchâtel
page(s): 909; note: Melanodesmus planus [details]
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