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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Spirostreptida » Spirostreptidae » Orthoporus » Orthoporus ornatus
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Dilopoda - Orthoporus ornatus
Copyright © 2010 Doug Danforth

Dilopoda - Orthoporus ornatus
Red Rock Canyon east of Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
August 5, 2006

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Contributed by Doug Danforth on 23 October, 2010 - 10:22am
Last updated 24 October, 2010 - 9:30pm

Moved
Moved from Millipedes.
… Doug Danforth, 24 October, 2010 - 9:30pm login or register to post comments

More reddish than usual, but
More reddish than usual, but this has to be Orthoporus ornatus Girard, 1853 (Spirostreptida: Spirostreptidae). Rowland Shelley
… Rowland Shelley, 24 October, 2010 - 5:28pm login or register to post comments

 
Orthoporus
Rowland, I'm having trouble finding positive ID criteria to separate Orthoporus ornatus from O. texicola. I observed some of these in southeast Arizona in August and would like to determine the species if possible. Thanks!
… Jay Keller, 14 December, 2014 - 8:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Bugguide submission here
I went ahead and submitted my specimen here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1026836
… Jay Keller, 14 December, 2014 - 8:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
They were quite vivid and always neat to see here in SE AZ during the monsoon
… Doug Danforth, 25 October, 2010 - 12:37pm login or register to post comments

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