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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Flat-backed Millipedes (Polydesmida) » Paradoxosomatidae » Oxidus » Greenhouse Millipede (Oxidus gracilis)
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Millipedes (mating) - Oxidus gracilis - male - female
Copyright © 2005 Sasha Azevedo

Millipedes (mating) - Oxidus gracilis - Male Female
Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 15, 2005
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Contributed by Sasha Azevedo on 30 November, 2005 - 8:27pm
Last updated 4 January, 2008 - 9:58pm

Moved
Moved from Polydesmida.
… john and jane balaban, 9 March, 2007 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

Oxidus gracilis again, probab
Oxidus gracilis again, probably a male on top of a female just prior to mating.
… Rowland Shelley, 5 March, 2007 - 9:31pm login or register to post comments

Millipedes
If they have two pairs of legs per apparent segment, they're millipedes.
… Jim McClarin, 30 November, 2005 - 8:34pm login or register to post comments

 
species?
I'm not sure the exact species of these millipedes.
… Sasha Azevedo, 30 November, 2005 - 9:02pm login or register to post comments

 
We're in the same boat ;-)
But maybe Lynnette Schimming (I've probably got too many letters in that name!) will have a look and educate us both.
… Jim McClarin, 1 December, 2005 - 4:14am login or register to post comments

 
Well,
I just follow the Golden Guide to Spiders and their kin (1). You can figure out the order by counting the body rings, which doesn't look possible in this shot, but still I'm thinking this is Polydesmida. Beyond that I have no clue.
… Lynette Elliott, 1 December, 2005 - 6:14am login or register to post comments

 
I concur.
Someone needs to contact Dr. Rowland Shelley (spelling?) at the North Carolina State Museum to help us here with our millipedes and centipedes.
… Eric R. Eaton, 1 December, 2005 - 2:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Re:
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… Sasha Azevedo, 1 December, 2005 - 6:00pm login or register to post comments

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