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BugGuide Gathering
Smoky Mountains
University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
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Species Narceus americanus - Narceus americanus/annularis complex

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)
Order Spirobolida
Family Spirobolidae
Genus Narceus
Species americanus (Narceus americanus/annularis complex)
Numbers
The genus currently comprises two valid taxa endemic to Florida and two of uncertain staatus that occur throughout eastern and central North America. (Shelley et al. 2006)
Size
Up to 10 cm - about twice as large as other North American millipedes.
Identification
Usually dark reddish-brown with red edges on each segment.
Habitat
In forest logs, leaf litter.
Print References
Shelley, R., C.T. McAllister & M.F. Medrano. 2006. Distribution of the milliped genus Narceus Rafinesque, 1820 (Spirobolida: Spirobolidae): Occurrences in New England and west of the Mississippi River, and a summary of peripheral localities; first records from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, and Minnesota. Western North American Naturalist, 66(3): 374-389.
Works Cited
1.Spiders and Their Kin: A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press
By Herbert W. Levi, Lorna R. Levi, Nicholas Strekalovsky