Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur de Philip Chamberlin, le frère de Joseph Conrad Chamberlin.
Publications originales
Chamberlin, 1923: New and little known pseudoscorpions, principally from the islands and adjacent shores of the Gulf of California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, sér.4, vol.12, no17, p.353-387 (texte intégral).
Chamberlin, 1932: A synoptic revision of the generic classification of the chelonethid family Cheliferidae Simon (Arachnida) (continued). Canadian Entomologist, vol.64, p.17-21 & 35-39.
12Chamberlin, 1923: New and little known pseudoscorpions, principally from the islands and adjacent shores of the Gulf of California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, sér.4, vol.12, no17, p.353-387 (texte intégral).