Albino millipede?

Elleken

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So these pictures are from a while ago. On a recent hike I saw another what I think is an albino of some species of millipede among a bunch of normal ones.

Normal:


Possible Albino?:
 

ex0tics

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I got no clue about millipedes or anything but maybe it's shed recently and haven't finished hardening it's exo?

But I have no millipedes, never have so :confused:
 

RoachGirlRen

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It looks more like a recently shed animal that hasn't finished hardening; one would need to keep and observe it to know for sure, I suppose. It wouldn't be unheard of for millipedes to be albino/leucistic, however; there are albino N. americanus that have been produced in captivity for some time now.
 

Elleken

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I actually did keep it and it has kept the colors. Looking through the substrate I keep them in I actually found juveniles with the same coloration as well.
 

RoachGirlRen

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Juvies tend to be lighter colored in most species (even baby giant african millipedes start out practically white), but if you do indeed have an albino/leucistic animal that is producing like babies, that would be very interesting - it's a fairly rare phenomenon in invertebrates, after all. I take it you are maintaining a colony? I'd be interested to see if you wind up producing more with that trait.
 

Elleken

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Yea, I will check on them again and possibly take more pictures.
 
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