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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Chordeumatida » Caseyidae » Underwoodia » Underwoodia iuloides
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Mini Millipede? - Underwoodia iuloides
Copyright © 2006 Peter Hollinger

Mini Millipede? - Underwoodia iuloides
ARNWR, Stowe, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
March 26, 2006
Size: ~12mm
Under a rotting log. I think this is a millipede (2 pairs of legs per segment) but don't know anything beyond that.
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Contributed by Peter Hollinger on 26 March, 2006 - 6:09pm
Last updated 8 March, 2007 - 8:17pm

Moved
Moved from Millipedes.
… john and jane balaban, 8 March, 2007 - 8:17pm login or register to post comments

Chordeumatida
This millipede is a representative of the order Chordeumatida, and in Massachusetts, the only possibility for a smooth-bodied one lie this is Underwoodia iuloides (Harger, 1872) (Chordeumatida: Caseyidae). This species is parthenogenetic and occurs across the northern US & Canada to the Rocky Mountains (with an allopatric apparently sexual population in northeastern New Mexico!!). There is a second species west of the Rockies in Canada and the US that extends southward into the Wasatch Mts. of Utah, and a third species occurs in Far Eastern Russia.
… Rowland Shelley, 6 March, 2007 - 9:09pm login or register to post comments

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… Chuck Entz, 29 April, 2006 - 12:58am login or register to post comments

Millipede, yes.
I agree it is definitely a millipede, but I don't know even what family it belongs to. Very intriguing specimen.
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 March, 2006 - 2:22pm login or register to post comments

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