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Millipede out for a walk - Apheloria virginiensis

Millipede out for a walk - Apheloria virginiensis
Mt. Joy, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
May 22, 2007
Size: ~35mm

Millipede
I do not know what species it is but I saw one just like it outside my house in south-estern Oklahoma.

Moved
Moved from Millipedes.

With the banded color pattern
With the banded color pattern, this can only be Apheloria virginiensis corrugata (Wood) (order Polydesmida: family Xystodesmidae). Rowland Shelley, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences.

 
Thanks!
Thanks! I'm partial to beetles but this happy wonderer was just grand!

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