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Species Harpaphe haydeniana


Revision of the milliped genus Harpaphe Cook from western North America (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)
By Buckett J.S., Gardner M.R.
Calif. Dept. Agric. Bureau Entomol. Occ. Pap. 11: 1–51, 1968

A species catalog of the millipede family Xystodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida)
By Paul Marek, Tsutomu Tanabe & Petra Sierwald
Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications, 2014

A new diplopod of the genus Caralinda Hoffman from South Carolina (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)
By Rowland M. Shelley
Myriapodologica 6(15): 147-150, 2000

Parcipromus, n. gen., a xystodesmid milliped genus from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California (Polydesmida)
By Rowland M. Shelley
Myriapodologica 3(7): 53-70, 1995
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new genus: Parcipromus Shelley, 1995

The status of Cleptoria divergens (Chamberlin) (Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)
By Rowland M. Shelley
Myriapodologica 1: 81-89, 1983
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unaccepted as Sigmoria divergens

accepted name Prionogonus divergens (Chamberlin, 1939)

A New Milliped of the genus Parvulodesmus Shelley from North Carolina, with Rediagnoses of the Genus and P.prolixogonus ...
By Rowland M. Shelley
Myriapodologica 7: 77-84, 2001
Full title: A New Milliped of the genus Parvulodesmus Shelley from North Carolina, with Rediagnoses of the Genus and P.prolixogonus
Shelley Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae)
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The chemical defenses of millipedes (Diplopoda): Biochemistry, physiology and ecology
By Shear W.A.
Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 61: 78‒117, 2015

Practical keys to the orders and families of millipedes of the Neotropical region (Myriapoda: Diplopoda)
By Hoffman R.L., Golovatch S.I., Adis J.U., Wellington de Morais J.
Amazoniana 14: 1‒35, 1996