Family: Alexiidae
Original taxon name: Sphaerosoma Sturanyi nov. spec.
Author of the original taxon name: Apfelbeck, V.
Classic locality: Bosnia merid. or. Metalka; Ljubična planina
Reference where the scientific name of taxon was first described in: Apfelbeck, V. (1909). Contributiones ad coleopterorum faunam peninsulae balcanicae. I. Descriptiones speciorum novarum. Glasnik Zemaljskog muzeja u Bosni i Hercegovini, 21: 495-504 pp.
Economy where the taxon was described in: BIH(RS), MNE BIH(RS), MNE
Specific description of the place: Ljubišnja Mt. Metaljka, near Čajniče
Global distribution of taxon: BIH,BGD,MNE
Reference where the scientific name of taxon was accepted in: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.) (2007). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera Volume 4. Elateroidea - Derodontoidea - Bostrichoidea - Lymexyloidea - Cleroidea - Cucujoidea. Apollo Books. Stenstrup: 935pp pp.