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Dilopoda - Orthoporus ornatus

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

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Moved
Moved from Millipedes.

More reddish than usual, but
More reddish than usual, but this has to be Orthoporus ornatus Girard, 1853 (Spirostreptida: Spirostreptidae). Rowland Shelley

 
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!

 
Bugguide submission here
I went ahead and submitted my specimen here:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1026836

 
Thanks
They were quite vivid and always neat to see here in SE AZ during the monsoon

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