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Tuesday, July 3rd 2007, 10:33pm

Millipede ID

Hi i've bought these to milipedes form a guy but he didn't knew which specie they are, can anyone identify them? The guy i bought them from thought that they might came from Africa but he was'nt sure.

Milipede 1:



milipede 2:


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Tuesday, July 3rd 2007, 11:19pm

Dear Krizo,
the problem is the identification of a species without pics of it beein uncurled.
It could be anythin´(no scolopendra of course), smile

So please can u take some close up pics of these, uncurled with the collum(head) from da side.
It makes it loads of easier to specify them...
some pics of their "butts" (also closeup) maybe helpful, though.

Dont ya think this could be the same species, da second one fresh molted, huh?

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Wednesday, July 4th 2007, 11:47am

Hello and welcome,
The millipedes belong to the order Spirobolida but without origin no further identification is possible. Where was that guy from?

Looks not like the common african Spirobolids like Pachybolus ssp., Epibolus or Centrobolus. Looks a bit like the species Narceus gordanus (Florida).
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Saturday, August 25th 2007, 12:49pm

RE: Millipede ID

Hi sorry for the late answer, today i''ve taken some new pics, heres one uncurled:



Can any on identifies the millipede now?

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Tuesday, August 28th 2007, 4:11pm

The two ones have different colorations. I still think that the darker one on the first pic could be Narceus gordanus. Compare withe the fotos >HERE< and >HERE<. The lighter one could be color variety.
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