Richard Lawrence Hoffman

Richard Lawrence Hoffman (1927–2012), U.S. myriapodologist and entomologist.

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• 25 taxon names authored by Richard Lawrence Hoffman

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• 2 eponyms of Richard Lawrence Hoffman

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• Loomis, H.F. & 1948. Synonymy of various Diplopods. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 61: 51–54. Reference page. 

• Chamberlin, R.V. & 1958. Checklist of the Millipeds of North America. Bulletin - United States National Museum (=United States National Museum Bulletin) No. 212. 236 pp. Online Full text Reference page. 

• Loomis, H.F. & 1962. A remarkable new family of spined polydesmoid Diplopoda, including a species lacking gonopods in the male sex. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 75: 145–158. Reference page. 

• 1963. A second species of the spider genus Hypochilus from eastern North America. American Museum Novitates 2148: 1-8. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• 1963. A new phalangid of the genus Siro from Eastern United States, and taxonomic notes on other American sironids (Arach., Opiliones). Senckenbergiana biologica 44: 129–139. Reference page. 

• 1971. The Insects of Virginia. No. 4. Shield bugs (Hemiptera; Scutelleroidea, Corimelaenidae, Cydnidae, Pentatomidae). Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Research Division Bulletin 67: v + 61 pp., 7 maps, 1 pl. PDFReference page. 

• 1976. A new species in the diplopod genus Amplinus from El Salvador with comments on other members of the genus Revue suisse de Zoologie 83(1): 39–44. BHL Reference page. 
• 1976. A new lophodesmid milliped from a Guatemalan cave, with notes on related forms (Polydesmida: Pyrgodesmidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 83(2): 307–316. BHL Reference page. 
• 1976. A new genus and species of cave-dwelling milliped from Guatemala (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Revue suisse de Zoologie 83(3): 743–746. BHL Reference page. 

• 1988. A new genus and species of spirostreptoid millipeds from the eastern Peruvian Andes (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida). Myriapodologica 2(5): 29–36. BHL Reference page. 

• Pereira , L.A., 1993. The American species of Escaryus a genus of holoarctic centipeds (Geophilomorpha: Schendylidae). Jeffersoniana 3: 1–72. Reference page. 

• & Shelley, R.M. 1996. The identity of Scolopendra marginata Say (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). Myriapodologica 4(5): 35–42. Reference page. 

• & Pereira, L.A. 1997. The identity and taxonomic status of the generic names Schendylops Cook, 1899, and Schendylurus Silvestri, 1907, and the proposal of Orygmadyla, a new related genus from Peru (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Schendylidae). Myriapodologica 5: 9–32. ResearchGate Reference page. 

• 1999: Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8. Martinsville, VA, 584 pp. PDF Reference page. 

• Hoffman, R.L. 2005. Monograph of the Gomphodesmidae, a family of African polydesmoid millipeds. Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, 122. 537 pp. GoogleBooks (snippet view) Reference page. 

• Mauriès, J.P., Golovatch, S.I. & 2006. Review of the millipede genus Macellolophus Attems, 1940 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Xystodesmidae). Arthropoda Selecta 15(1): 19–21. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Golovatch, S.I., & Chang, H.W. 2011: Identity of Glomeris bicolor Wood, 1865, and the status of the generic names Hyleoglomeris Verhoeff, 1910 and Rhopalomeris Verhoeff, 1906 (Diplopoda, Glomeridae). Tropical Natural History 11(1): 1–8. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• & Enghoff, H. 2011: A new genus for a colorful spirostreptid milliped from East Africa (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Spirostreptidae). Zootaxa 2903: 21–28. Preview Reference page. 

• & Golovatch, S.I. 2012: The millipede genus Argentocricus Verhoeff, 1941 (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Rhinocricidae). Arthropoda selecta 21(3): 211–215. Full article (PDF) Reference page.