original description
(of Armadillidium caelatum Miers, 1878) Miers, E.J. (1878). On a collection of Crustacea, Decapoda and Isopoda, chiefly from South America, with descriptions of new genera and species. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1877(IV): 653-679 [imprint 1877]. [details]
original description
(of Eluma helleri Verhoeff, 1908) Verhoeff, K. W. (1908). Über Isopoden. 15. Aufsatz. <em>Archiv für Biontogie.</em> 2(2): 335-387, pls. 29-31. [details]
original description
(of Eluma purpurascens Budde-Lund, 1885) Budde-Lund, G. (1885). Crustacea Isopoda Terrestria, per Familias et Genera et Species Descripta. 319 pp. Copenhagen. [details]
original description
(of Eluma purpurescens Budde-Lund, 1879) Budde-Lund, G. (1879). <em>Prospectus generum specierumque crustaceorum isopodum terrestrium.</em> 10 pp. Copenhagen. [details]
basis of record
Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]
additional source
Schmalfuss, H. (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). <em>Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie).</em> 654: 1-341., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60882444 [details] Available for editors
additional source
Cifuentes, J.; Da Silva, L. P. (2023). The genus Eluma in the Iberian Peninsula, with the description of a new terrestrial isopod: Eluma matae sp. nov. (Oniscidea, Armadillidiidae, Eluminae). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 860: 27–41., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.860.2047 [details]
From editor or global species database
type locality French Guiana [details]