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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Julida » Blaniulidae » Blaniulus » Spotted Snake Millipede (Blaniulus guttulatus)
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Ghostly white millipede? - Blaniulus guttulatus
Copyright © 2006 john and jane balaban

Ghostly white millipede? - Blaniulus guttulatus
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
April 17, 2006
Size: ~10mm
Closer view.

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 27 May, 2006 - 9:48pm
Last updated 6 March, 2007 - 9:37pm

Moved
Moved from Millipedes.
… john and jane balaban, 6 March, 2007 - 9:37pm login or register to post comments

Blaniulidae
This very narrow millipede (about the width of a pencil lead) is juvenile of an introduced European species of the family Blaniulidae, which also has a native species in North America. With the red spots, representing the defensive glands, on each segment throughout most of the body, I believe this is Blaniulus guttulatus.
… Rowland Shelley, 6 March, 2007 - 9:15pm login or register to post comments

 
That's disappointing!
Much of the Chicago metropolitan area is developed, of course, but about 10% of Cook County has been set aside as Nature Preserves. This is an Oak Hickory woodland with many conservative native plant species. We had hoped that by finding this under the bark of a fallen 100+ year old red oak, it would be something wonderful, not just another non-native invasive. Sniff! Sniff!
… john and jane balaban, 9 March, 2007 - 2:09pm login or register to post comments

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