original description
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 at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989137
page(s): 202 [details]
original description
(of Prospirobolus Attems, 1910) Attems, C. M. T. Graf von (1910). Myriopoden von Madagaskar, den Comoren und den Inseln Ostafrikas. In: Voeltzkow, A. : Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903:1905. Wissensch. Ergebn., System. Arb., 3, 3: 73-115. Stuttgart
page(s): 91 [details]
original description
(of Sinobolus Chamberlin & Wang, 1953) Chamberlin, R. V.; Wang, Y.-H. M. (1953). Records of millipeds (Diplopoda) from Japan and other oriental areas, with descriptions of new genera and species. American Museum Novitates, 1621: 1-13. New York [details]
basis of record
Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 77 [details]
additional source
Keeton, W. T. (1960). A taxonomic study of the milliped family Spirobolidae (Diplopoda: Spirobolida). Memoirs of the American Entomological Society, 17: 1-146. Philadelphia [details]
additional source
Jeekel, C. A. W. (2001). A bibliographic catalogue of the Spirobolida of the Oriental and Australian regions (Diplopoda). Myriapod memoranda, 4: 5-104. Oisterwijk
page(s): 8 [details]
additional source
Shelley, R. M., and Floyd, S. D. (2014). Expanded concept of the milliped family Spirobolidae (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Spirobolidea): Proposals of Aztecolini n. tribe and Floridobolinae/ini and Tylobolini n. stats.: (re)descriptions of Floridobolus and F. penneri, both Causey, 1957, and F. orini n. sp.; hypotheses on origins and affinities. <em>Insecta Mundi.</em> 0357: 1-50., available online at https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/869/
page(s): 32; note: They list 6 species for the genus: S. bungii Brandt, 1833; S. walkeri Pocock, 1895; and S. umbobrochus, grahami, formosae, all by Keeton, 1960; and S. cincinnalis D. Wang and Zhang, 1993. [details]
additional source
Kato, T.; Takano, M.; Nakano, T.; Shimano, S. (2023). Taxonomic Assessment of a Threatened Large Millipede Endemic to the Southern Ryukyu Islands, Japan: a New Species of <i>Spirobolus</i> (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Spirobolidae) from the Yaeyama Islands. <em>Species Diversity.</em> 28(1): 23-30., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/specdiv/28/1/28_SD22-23/_article/-char/en [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment This genus has become a wastebasket taxon of unrelated species, being used in the sense of referring to the entire order. Much cleanup remains to be done. [details]