original description
Silvestri, F. (1898). Viaggio del Dott. E. Festa nella Repubblica dell'Ecuador. XI. Diplopodi. Bollettino del musei di zoologia e di anatomia comparata della Reale Università di Torino, 13(324): 1-11. Torino
page(s): 3 [details]
additional source
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): 245-273., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.2
page(s): 260; note: Attems (1938) considered this species a synonym of P. fraternus, a decision rejected by Hoffman (1960). [details] Available for editors 
additional source
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1938). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea II. Fam. Leptodesmidae, Platyrhachidae, Oxydesmidae, Gomphodesmidae. Das Tierreich, 69: 1-487. Berlin
page(s): 234 [details]
new combination reference
Brölemann, H. W. (1920). Myriapodes. Mission du service géographique de l'armée pour la mesure d'un arc de méridien équatorial en Amérique du Sud sous le controle de l' Academie des Sciences, 1899-1906, 10(2): 235-275
page(s): 257; note: Platyrrhachus tenebrosus [details]
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