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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Millipedes (Diplopoda) » Spirobolida » Spirobolidae » Tylobolus » Tylobolus uncigerus

Species Tylobolus uncigerus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Millipede (Tylobolus uncigeris?) - Tylobolus uncigerus Millipede (Tylobolus uncigeris?) - Tylobolus uncigerus Long dark millipede - Tylobolus uncigerus Long dark millipede - Tylobolus uncigerus Long dark millipede - Tylobolus uncigerus Tylobolus? - Tylobolus uncigerus millepede - Tylobolus uncigerus Very common millipede in these parts - Tylobolus uncigerus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Myriapoda (Myriapods)
Class Diplopoda (Millipedes)
Order Spirobolida
Family Spirobolidae
Genus Tylobolus
Species uncigerus (Tylobolus uncigerus)
Explanation of Names
Tylobolus uncigerus (Wood 1864)
Identification
A rather slender Tylobolus, brownish gray ("fuscous") with no (or very little) red or yellow on the margins. Commonly has striae on hindbelt (rear margin of ring) up to level of ozopores, and more pronounced lips of the anal valve than congeners.(1)(2)
Range
sw.WA to Mariposa & Santa Cruz cos., CA(3). The northernmost species of Tylobolus.
Works Cited
1.A taxonomic study of the milliped family Spirobolidae (Diplopoda; Spirobolida)
Keeton, William. 1960. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society 17: 1–146.
2.The species of the milliped genus Tylobolus (Diplopoda: Spirobolida). A re-examination.
Keeton, William. 1966. Transactions of the American Entomological Society , 92(1), 17–28.
3.Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America
Richard L. Hoffman. 1999. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications.
Contributed by Sam McNally on 11 November, 2013 - 10:14pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 6 November, 2023 - 1:58pm

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