Richard Lawrence Hoffman

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

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Loomis, H.F. & Hoffman, R.L. 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.

Hoffman, R.L. 1963. A second species of the spider genus Hypochilus from eastern North America. American Museum Novitates 2148: 1-8. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Hoffman, R.L. 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.

Hoffman, R.L. 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. PDF Reference page.

Hoffman, R.L. 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.
Hoffman, R.L. 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.
Hoffman, R.L. 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.

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

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

Hoffman, R.L. & 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.

Hoffman, R.L. 1999. Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8. Martinsville, VA, USA. 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. & Hoffman, R.L. 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., Hoffman, R.L. & 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.
Hoffman, R.L. & Enghoff, H. 2011: A new genus for a colorful spirostreptid milliped from East Africa (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Spirostreptidae). Zootaxa 2903: 21–28. Preview Reference page.

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