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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Euryuridae » Euryurus » Euryurus evides
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colorful millipede - Euryurus evides
Copyright © 2016 James C. Trager

colorful millipede - Euryurus evides
Shaw Nature Reserve, Franklin County, Missouri, USA
November 2, 2016
Size: 30 mm
Found in a red-rotten log in a highly degraded woodland, nearly completely overtaken by invasive Lonicera maackii!
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Contributed by James C. Trager on 3 November, 2016 - 3:36pm
Last updated 3 November, 2016 - 6:33pm

Moved
Moved from Euryurus leachii.

It is hard, maybe not even possible to tell these apart from most photographs. It has to be Auturus evides based on location.

Compare your submission from many years ago, same local:
… Jeff Brown, 3 November, 2016 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Is there a key or other reference?
...Something I could use to distinguish the two species.
Is it the case that E. leachii does not occur west of the Mississippi?

(edit) Found my answer to the second question: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/723/
… James C. Trager, 4 November, 2016 - 6:02am login or register to post comments

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