original description
Lemos de Castro, A. (1985) Duas especies novas Brasileiras de Benthana Budde-Lund, 1908 (Isopoda, Oniscoidea, Philosciidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 45(3):241-247. [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
Campos-Filho, I. S.; Taiti, S.; Araujo, P. B. (2015). Taxonomic revision of the genus Benthana Budde-Lund, 1908 (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4022: 1-73. [details]
From editor or global species database
type locality Brazil [details]