original descriptionChamberlin, R. V. (1938). New diplopods. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 51: 205-208. Washington page(s): 207 [details]
original description(ofRhysodesmus viabilis Chamberlin, 1943)Chamberlin, R. V. (1943). On Mexican Millipeds. Bulletin of the University of Utah, Biological series, 8(3): 1-103 page(s): 47 [details]
original description(ofRhysodesmus brachus Chamberlin, 1941)Chamberlin, R. V. (1941). On five new Polydesmid millipeds from Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 54: 63-66 page(s): 63 [details]
original description(ofRhysodesmus quadruplus Loomis, 1966)Loomis, H. F. (1966). Descriptions and records of Mexican Diplopoda. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 59: 11-27 page(s): 20 [details]
additional sourceChamberlin, R. V.; Mulaik, S. (1941). On a collection of millipeds from Texas and New Mexico. J.N.V. Ent. Soc., 49(1): 57-64 page(s): 57 [details]
additional sourceHoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584. page(s): 351 [details]
source of synonymyHoffman, R. L. (1999). Checklist of the millipedes of North and Middle America. <em>Virginia Museum of Natural History, special publication.</em> 8: 1-584. page(s): 351 [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): 249 [details]
new combination referenceChamberlin, R. V. (1943). Some records and descriptions of American diplopods. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 56: 143-151. Washington D.C. page(s): 143; note: Rhysodesmus texicolens [details]
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