original description
(of Philoscia omissa Van Name, 1936) Van Name, W. G. (1936). The American land and fresh-water isopod Crustacea. <em>Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.</em> 71: 1-535. [details] Available for editors
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]
new combination reference
Lemos de Castro, A. (1967). Isopódos terrestres da Amazônia Brasileira (Isopoda, Oniscoidea). <em>Atas do Simpósio Sôbre a Biota Amazônica.</em> 5(Zoologia): 311-336. [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
type locality Guyana [details]