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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Polyzoniida » Siphonotidae » Rhinotus » Rhinotus purpureus
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Rhinotus purpureus
Copyright © 2021 Jonas Insinga

Rhinotus purpureus
Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, Key Biscayne, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA
November 11, 2021
An aggregation of these purple-pink millipedes were found feeding on a mat of yellow fungus growing on the underside of the same piece of dead wood where Cedusa and Cynortoides quadrispinosa were found:
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Contributed by Jonas Insinga on 16 December, 2021 - 9:32pm
Last updated 17 December, 2021 - 8:23am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Tyler Hedlund, 17 December, 2021 - 8:23am login or register to post comments

I should post a close-up
I should post a close-up or go back and look for these again to take additional close-up's, but you can see that the antenna are short and somewhat club-shaped.
… Jonas Insinga, 17 December, 2021 - 7:54am login or register to post comments

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