original description
Lockington, W.N. (1877). Description of seventeen new species of Crustacea. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 7 [for 1876]: 41-48. [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]
Syntype, verbatimGeounit USA. W coast of Alas... [details]
From editor or global species database
Basionym erected as Idotaea [sic] pulchra; genus misspelled [details]