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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Spirobolida » Spirobolidae » Narceus » Narceus americanus/annularis complex (Narceus americanus-annularis-complex)
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Iargo Springs Millipede - Narceus americanus? - Narceus americanus-annularis-complex
Copyright © 2006 Greg Schmidt

Iargo Springs Millipede - Narceus americanus? - Narceus americanus-annularis-complex
Iargo Springs, Huron National Forest, Iosco County, Michigan, USA
May 31, 2006
Size: 6.5 cm
I found this millipede on the forest floor on an upper NE facing slope 200 m west of springs. Forest is white pine, red pine, and northern red oak on sandy substrate. Lower slopes have northern mesic forest with seeps and springs. We have had above average rain fall over the past weeks. Species looks a lot like millipedes I see in Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.
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Contributed by Greg Schmidt on 7 June, 2006 - 8:57am
Last updated 9 October, 2006 - 5:24pm

Narceus americanus (Beauvois,
Narceus americanus (Beauvois, 1817) (Spirobolida: Spirobolidae) again, the most common millipede species in eastern North America.
… Rowland Shelley, 6 March, 2007 - 8:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Millipedes.
… john and jane balaban, 9 October, 2006 - 5:24pm login or register to post comments

Measurements
We had mistakenly used a non-metric engineer's scale in the image shown. The "20 scale" looked like centimeters. As it turns out, this bugger was only 6.5 cm rather than the 7.5 cm I had previously posted.
… Greg Schmidt, 9 August, 2006 - 12:06pm login or register to post comments

Narceus americanus
It looks like N. americanus, not yet full size.
… padkison, 10 July, 2006 - 1:24pm login or register to post comments

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