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Photo#22610
Sigmoria aberrans - male

Sigmoria aberrans - Male
Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA
June 30, 2005
Size: 2" long
The male genitalia on this specimen are visible between the leg-pairs on the sixth tagma.

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Moved
Moved from Almond Millipede.

unidentifiable xystodesmid male
This individual is indeed a male xystodesmid (Polydesmida)as evidenced by the obvious gonopods, which replace the anterior pair of legs on segment 7 in the Polydesmida. It is segment 7, not six, because the collum, or 1st segment, lacks legs altogether. If the Leon Co., Florida, locality is correct, the species cannot be Sigmoria latior latior (Brolemann) (= S. aberrans), which occurs from southern West Virginia to the northern mountains & Piedmont of North Carolina. I cannot clearly see enough of the gonopods to guess the identity, but what I can see doesn't look like the few xystodesmid species occurring in Leon Co.

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