original description
(ofPlatyrhacus acanthosternus (Brölemann, 1900)) Brölemann, H. W. (1900). Myriapodes d'Amérique. Mémoires de la société zoologique de France, 13: 89-128. Paris
page(s): 120 [details]
new combination reference
Recuero, E.; Sánchez-Vialas, A. (2018). A new distinctive species of Barydesmus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Platyrhacidae) from Ecuador, with an annotated bibliographical checklist of the American Platyrhacidae. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4482(2): 245., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.2
page(s): p. 251; note: Assigned to the genus Barydesmus [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark Attems (1914) suggested a possible synonymy with P. helophorus Attems, 1899 [details]