Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
Upcoming Events

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2018 gathering in Virginia, July 27-29


Previous events


TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Family Allopocockiidae - Allopocockiidae 0

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Myriapoda (Myriapods)
Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)
Order Spirobolida
Family Allopocockiidae (Allopocockiidae 0)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Allopocockiidae Keeton 1960
Numbers
One species, Anelus richardsoni in our area, 5 genera total
Identification
Collum broad and truncated, margins ending at same level as ventrolateral corners of the succeeding pleurotergite; epiproct long, extending well beyond the paraprocts
Range
in our area, southermost Texas into n. Mexico
Print References
Shelley R.M., Hoffman R.L. (1995) Anelus richardsoni (Pocock), a Gulf coastal millipede of the United States and Mexico (Spirobolida: Allopocockiidae). Myriapodologica 3(12): 107-114.