original description
(of Philoscia guttulata Gerstaecker, 1873) Gerstaecker, A. (1873). (Crustacea.) Ordo III. Isopoda, Latr. Pp. 525-528 <i>in</i>:. <em>Baron Carl Claus von der Decken's Reisen in Ost-Africa in den Jahren 1859-1865. Dritter Band. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Zweite Abtheilung: Gliederthiere (Insekten, Arachniden, Myriapoden und Isopoden).</em> Leipzig und Heidelberg: C. F. Winter. xvi + 532 pp., pls. 1-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24401046 [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 
From editor or global species database
type locality Zanzibar [details]