Species Scytonotus granulatus - Granulated Millipede

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Internet References

pale lobed millipede - Scytonotus granulatus - female

Millipede Mating Behaviour? - Scytonotus granulatus - male - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)

Order Polydesmida

Family Polydesmidae

Genus Scytonotus

Species granulatus (Granulated Millipede)

Numbers

one of 4 species in this genus in Canada

Identification

dorsal surface with low rounded tubercles or pustules; in females, the paranota (lateral segmental expansions on the dorsa) are slightly smaller on segments 6-7; males have only one pair of legs on segment 6, whereas females have two

Range

Ontario and Wisconsin to South Carolina, northern Alabama, and eastern fringe of Oklahoma

Remarks

page creation based on Rowland Shelley's identification of this image

Internet References

common name reference (United States Forest Service)

Contributed by Robin McLeod on 6 March, 2007 - 7:40am

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