original descriptionSaussure, H. L. F. de (1859). Diagnose de divers Myriapodes nouveaux. Linnaea entomologica, 13: 328-332 page(s): 328 [details]
additional sourceSaussure, H. L. F. de. (1860). Essai d'une faune des Myriapodes du Mexique avec la description de quelques espèces des autres parties de l'Amérique. <em>Mémoires de la Société de Physiques et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève.</em> 15(2): 135 pages, starts page 259, page numbering uncertain., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10918573 page(s): 276 [details]
additional sourceCook, O. F. (1898). American oniscoid Diplopoda of the order Merocheta. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 21(1154): 451-468. Washington D.C. page(s): 462 [details]
additional sourceAttems, C. M. T. Graf von (1899). System der Polydesmiden. II. Theil. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klassen, 68: 251-436, available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35890675 page(s): 390 [details]
additional sourceAttems, 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): 361 [details]
additional sourceHoffman, 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): 412 [details]
additional sourcePocock, R. I. (1910). Chilopoda and Diplopoda. In: Biologia centrali-americana, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America, edited by F. Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin, 1-217, available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/576427 page(s): 125 [details]
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): 288 [details]
source of synonymyHoffman, 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): 412 [details]
new combination referencePeters, W. C. H. (1864(1865)). Übersicht der im Königl. zoologischen Museum befindlichen Myriopoden aus der Familie der Polydesmi, so wie Beschreibungen einer neuen Gattung, Trachyjulus, der Juli und neuer Arten der Gattung Siphonophora. Monatsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1864(7): 529-551. Berlin page(s): 529; note: Sphaeriodesmus Glomeridesmus mexicanus [details]
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