Dilopoda - Orthoporus ornatus - BugGuide.Net

Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Spirostreptida » Spirostreptidae » Orthoporus » Orthoporus ornatus

Photo#467079

Copyright © 2010 Doug Danforth

Dilopoda - Orthoporus ornatus

Red Rock Canyon east of Patagonia, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
August 5, 2006

Images of this individual: tag all

Dilopoda - Orthoporus ornatus

Dilopoda - Orthoporus ornatus

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

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

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

Bugguide submission here

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

… Jay Keller, 14 December, 2014 - 8:23pm

Thanks

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

… Doug Danforth, 25 October, 2010 - 12:37pm

Disclaimer: Dedicated naturalists volunteer their time and resources here to provide this service. We strive to provide accurate information, but we are mostly just amateurs attempting to make sense of a diverse natural world. If you need expert professional advice, contact your local extension office.

Contributors own the copyright to and are solely responsible for contributed content.
Click the contributor's name for licensing and usage information.
Everything else copyright © 2003-2023 Iowa State University, unless otherwise noted.

Bugguide is hosted by: