Brandt, J. F. (1833). Tentaminum quorundam monographicorum Insecta Myriapoda Chilognathi Latreillii spectantium prodromus. Bulletin de la Societé Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 6: 194-209. Moscow, available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989137 page(s): 199 [details]
Sierwald, P.; Spelda, J. (2023). MilliBase. Sphaeropoeus Brandt, 1833. Accessed at: https://millibase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892628 on 2023-09-27
original descriptionBrandt, J. F. (1833). Tentaminum quorundam monographicorum Insecta Myriapoda Chilognathi Latreillii spectantium prodromus. Bulletin de la Societé Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 6: 194-209. Moscow, available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989137 page(s): 199 [details]
original description(ofLissosphaera Attems, 1943)Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1943). Neue Sphaerotheriden des Wiener Museums. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 53(2. Teil): 60-73. Wien page(s): 63 [details]
original description(ofTonkinobelum Verhoeff, 1924)Verhoeff, K. W. (1924). Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 34. Myriapoda: Diplopoda. Arkif för Zoologi, 16(5): 1-142. Stockholm page(s): 58 [details]
taxonomy sourceJeekel, 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 page(s): 28 [details]
additional sourceWesener, T. (2016). The Giant Pill-Millipedes, order Sphaerotheriida –
An annotated species catalogue
with morphological atlas
and list of apomorphies. <em>Bonn zoological Bulletin Supplementum.</em> 63: 1-107. page(s): 1; note: Catalogue [details]
source of synonymyJeekel, C. A. W. (1974). The group taxonomy and geography of the Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda). Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 32: 41-52. London page(s): 46 [details]
redescriptionWesener, T. (2016). Redescription and phylogenetic analysis of the type species of the giant pill-millipede genus Sphaeropoeus Brandt, 1833 (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4184(1): 141., available online athttps://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.9 page(s): 141; note: redescription and phylogeny [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality