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ines68 · Jul 26, 2003

Somebody knows what specie is this?

Steven · Jul 27, 2003

is that a specie found in venezuela?,
milipedes are very hard to identify from pictures.

anyway, if that's another venezuelean specie, i just have to get someday to your country

Cooper · Jul 27, 2003

Kinda looks like an AGB, oh wait, that has a pointy tail:? .........

ines68 · Jul 27, 2003

Yes is from Venezuela (mi building backyard), here is another picture:

Cooper · Jul 27, 2003

sorry, but I cant tell what it is. You are so lucky to be able to catch stuff like that in your backyard!

Frank · Jul 27, 2003

With myriapods we never say "looks like", because there are color morphs (for centi). For millis, there's too many species and most of them are really hard to ID correctly, unless they're a really common species (such as AGBs). Some millis have to be dissected to be IDed correctly. And only scientists have the real data to ID correctly millis. It's not available on the internet, and I don't think there's books that cover non-common millipedes IDing.

And AGBs are native to South Africa only (I'm pretty sure of), unless they have been exported to Venezuela (central-south america).

Ines, you're very lucky here in Venezuela.. tityus ssp. and huge millipedes! Wow..

Steven · Jul 27, 2003

Hey, i gues everybody here is sooooo jalous at you, cause you can find every awsome bug or pede right at your doorstep

on topic now:

i'm 100%sure it's not a A.Gigas. because the spiny tail indeed and it's global structure.

@FrankQC

A.Gigas are African species, but not South African as far as i know. they come around countrys like: Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Benin, upto Tanzania and Congo, i was told

greetz

Frank · Jul 27, 2003

Isn't Tanzania in South Africa? Hmm, after looking on a map, its central Africa. Oops!

Frank

ines68 · Jul 27, 2003

Thanks guys

phoenixxavierre · Jul 27, 2003

Wow!! That's a big millipede! Very nice!

Best wishes,

Paul

ines68 · Jul 27, 2003

Does anyone knows what do this millipede eats?

Thanks

Ines

fatbloke · Jul 27, 2003

ines68

most specie of millipedes will eat fruit and vegetables mine will eat apple,pear,cucumber,courgett,cabbage hopes this helps

fatbloke

fatbloke · Jul 27, 2003

my guess would be thats not an agb as their range is from south africa upto kenya not sure about the other parts of africa but wether they are the same specie is a different matter but they all look very similar and like frank said they are hard to id:?

fatbloke

ines68 · Jul 28, 2003

thanks fatbloke

Id

ines68

Arachnoknight

Steven

pede-a-holic

Cooper

Arachnoangel

ines68

Arachnoknight

Cooper

Arachnoangel

Frank

Arachnobaron

Steven

pede-a-holic

Frank

Arachnobaron

ines68

Arachnoknight

phoenixxavierre

Arachnoprince

ines68

Arachnoknight

fatbloke

Arachnoangel

fatbloke

Arachnoangel

ines68

Arachnoknight