Species Underwoodia iuloides

Classification · Identification · Range

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)

Order Chordeumatida

Family Caseyidae

Genus Underwoodia

Species iuloides (Underwoodia iuloides)

Identification

This millipede is a representative of the order Chordeumatida, and in Massachusetts, the only possibility for a smooth-bodied one like this is Underwoodia iuloides (Harger, 1872) (Chordeumatida: Caseyidae). (Dr Rowland Shelley)

Range

This species is parthenogenetic and occurs across the northern US & Canada to the Rocky Mountains (with an allopatric apparently sexual population in northeastern New Mexico!!). There is a second species west of the Rockies in Canada and the US that extends southward into the Wasatch Mts. of Utah, and a third species occurs in Far Eastern Russia. (Dr Rowland Shelley)

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 8 March, 2007 - 8:17pm

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