original description
Carl, J. (1932). Zoologische Forschungen in Süd-Indien (Winter 1926/27). Diplopoden aus Süd-Indien und Ceylon. 1. Teil. Polydesmoidea. Revue suisse de zoologie, 39(17): 411-529. Genève
page(s): 479 [details]
taxonomy source
Golovatch, S.; Geoffroy, J.-J.; VandenSpiegel, D. (2014). Review of the millipede family Trichopolydesmidae in the Oriental realm (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with descriptions of new genera and species. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 414: 19-65., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7671
page(s): 21; note: Lankadesmus is a junior objective synonym of Nasodesmus Cook, 1896 [details]
basis of record
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): 334; note: listed as junior objective synonym [details]
additional source
de Zoysa, H. K. S.; Nguyen Duc, A.; Wickramasinghe, S. (2016). Annotated checklist of millipedes (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) of Sri Lanka. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4061 (5): 151-482., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.1
page(s): 470; note: Lankadesmus treated erroneously as valid genus [details]
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