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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Polyzoniida » Polyzoniidae » Bdellozonium » Bdellozonium cerviculatum
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Orange millipede - Bdellozonium cerviculatum
Copyright © 2012 Debbi Brusco

Orange millipede - Bdellozonium cerviculatum
SFSU Field Campus, Sierra County, California, USA
July 2, 2012
Size: ~4-6cm
Found under a log. The images under Hirudisomatidae, Octoglena, look similar, but those specimens are all a lot smaller.

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Orange millipede - Bdellozonium cerviculatum Orange millipede - Bdellozonium cerviculatum Orange millipede - Bdellozonium cerviculatum
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Contributed by Debbi Brusco on 1 August, 2012 - 5:03pm
Last updated 18 September, 2012 - 9:44pm

Moved
Moved from Millipedes.
… john and jane balaban, 18 September, 2012 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

Bdellozonium cerviculatum (or
Bdellozonium cerviculatum (order Polyzoniida: family Polyzoniidae). Rowland Shelley
… Rowland Shelley, 18 September, 2012 - 9:31pm login or register to post comments

The two pictures don't look l
The two pictures don't look like the same animal to me, though both are in the order Polyzoniida. The head end one looks like Octoglena sierra (family Hirudisomatidae_) while the whole animal looks like Bdellozonium cerviculatum (family Polyzoniidae). Rowland Shelley
… Rowland Shelley, 8 August, 2012 - 10:41pm login or register to post comments

 
same animal
I added another image. I would have taken better images, but I thought this was something I'd already seen.
… Debbi Brusco, 9 August, 2012 - 1:13am login or register to post comments

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