original descriptionChamberlin, R. V. (1952). Further records and descriptions of American millipeds. Great Basin Naturalist, 12: 13-34. Provo page(s): 20 [details]
additional sourceHoffman, R. L.; Florez, E. (1995). The milliped genus Phallorthus revalidated: another facet of a taxonomic enigma (Spirostreptida: Pseudonannolenidae). Myriapodologica, 3(13): 115-126. Martinsville page(s): 118 [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): 112 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality