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Family Nearctodesmidae

red & yellow millipede - voucher images - Kepolydesmus anderisus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Myriapoda (Myriapods)

Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)

Order Polydesmida (Flat-backed Millipedes)

Family Nearctodesmidae

Explanation of Names

Nearctodesmidae Chamberlin & Hoffman 1950

Numbers

25 spp. in 7 genera total(1)

Identification

Smooth metaterga, with few or no setae, are characteristic (Shear et al. 2009)

Range

along the Pacific from the Queen Charlotte Is., BC, to San Francisco Bay; also e.WA, n.ID, w.MT + adjacent BC. ‒Rowland Shelley

Works Cited

1.	Sierwald P., Spelda J. (2023) MilliBase

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 3 August, 2009 - 12:02am
Additional contributions by v belov, DerekHennen, biosam
Last updated 1 November, 2023 - 9:46pm

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