original description(ofDiaphorodesmus attemsii Verhoeff, 1938)Verhoeff, K. W. (1938). Zur Kenntnis der Oxydesmiden. (Nach Objekten des Münchner Zoologischen Museums.). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 124(7): 161-174. Leipzig page(s): 166 [details]
original description(ofDiaphorodesmus attemsi Verhoeff, 1938)Verhoeff, K. W. (1938). Zur Kenntnis der Oxydesmiden. (Nach Objekten des Münchner Zoologischen Museums.). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 124(7): 161-174. Leipzig page(s): 167 [details]
additional sourceAttems, C. M. T. Graf von (1899). System der Polydesmiden. II. Theil. Denkschriften der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klassen, 68: 251-436, available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35890675 page(s): 312, plate 7, fig. 167 [details]
additional sourceAttems, C. M. T. Graf von (1931). Die Familie Leptodesmidae und andere Polydesmiden. Zoologica (Stuttgart), (79): 1-150. Stuttgart page(s): 100, figs 147-151 [details]
additional sourceAttems, C. M. T. Graf von (1938). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea II. Fam. Leptodesmidae, Platyrhachidae, Oxydesmidae, Gomphodesmidae. Das Tierreich, 69: 1-487. Berlin page(s): 409, figs 451-452 [details]
additional sourceAttems, C. M. T. Graf von (1940). Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea III. Fam. Polydesmidae, Vanhoeffeniidae, Cryptodesmidae, Oniscodesmidae, Sphaerotrichopidae, Periodontodesmidae, Rhachidesmidae, Macellolophidae, Pandirodesmidae. Das Tierreich, 70: 1-577. Berlin page(s): 559, fig. 709 [details]
additional sourceCarl, J. (1905). Diplopodes de la Guinée espagnole. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, 1(15): 261-284, available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12197528 page(s): 271, plate 6, figs 1-1a [details]
additional sourceDemange, J.-M.; Mauriès, J.-P. (1975). Myriapodes - Diplopodes des Monts Nimba et Tonkoui (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinée) récoltés par M. Lamotte et ses collaborateurs de 1942 à 1961. <em>Annalen, Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika - Zoologische wetenschappen.</em> 212: 1-192. Tervuren. page(s): 139; note: name cited [details]
additional sourceVerhoeff, K. W. (1938). Zur Kenntnis der Oxydesmiden. (Nach Objekten des Münchner Zoologischen Museums.). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 124(7): 161-174. Leipzig page(s): 167, figs 1-3 [details]
additional sourceCook, O. F. (1896). On the Xyodesmidae, a new family. Brandtia (A series of occasional papers an Diplopoda and other Arthropoda), 4: 15-17 page(s): 16 [details]
additional sourceChamberlin, R. V. (1952). An arrangement of the Prepodesmidae, a family of African millipeds. <em>Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.</em> 42: 327-333., available online athttps://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39697689 page(s): 327 [details]
source of synonymyVandenSpiegel, D.; Golovatch, S. I.; Mauriès, J.-P. (2016). Review of the western African millipede genus Diaphorodesmus Silvestri, 1896 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae), with the description of a similar, but new monotypic genus from Cameroon. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 600: 7-24. page(s): 10, figs 1–7, 12. [details] Available for editors
new combination referenceSilvestri, F. (1896). I Diplopodi. Parte I. - Sistematica. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova, serie 2, 16: 121-254, available online athttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7697911 page(s): 197 [details]
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