Der Große Westliche Bandfüßer (Polydesmus angustus) kriecht über verrottendes Holz. Sein abgeflachter, segmentierter Körper ist braun gefärbt und zeigt seitlich auffällige, leicht nach oben gebogene Fortsätze an jedem Körperring. Die vielen feinen Beine bewegen sich wellenartig entlang der Unterseite.

Detailaufnahme des Körpers von Polydesmus angustus: Die einzelnen Segmente wirken wie überlappende Platten mit strukturierter Oberfläche. Die seitlichen Auswüchse sind deutlich sichtbar und verleihen dem Tier ein gezacktes, bandartiges Erscheinungsbild.

Der Kopfbereich des Großen Westlichen Bandfüßers ist im Vordergrund zu sehen. Die langen, gegliederten Antennen tasten die Umgebung ab, während das Tier über ein Stück Laub und morsches Holz läuft. Die vielen kurzen Beine darunter sorgen für gleichmäßige Fortbewegung.

Makroaufnahme eines Großen Westlichen Bandfüßers (Polydesmus angustus) auf rotbrauner, rissiger Baumrinde. Der Tausendfüßer ist von oben fotografiert und zeigt seinen charakteristisch abgeflachten, segmentierten Körper mit seitlich abstehenden Kielplatten (Paranota). Die Körperfärbung ist rotbraun mit leicht transparenten Rändern der einzelnen Segmente. An der Unterseite sind mehrere kurze Beinpaare sichtbar. Am rechten Bildrand sind die feinen Antennen des Kopfendes zu erkennen. Im Hintergrund links unten ist etwas Moos sichtbar.

Häufig findet man den Großen Westlichen Bandfüßer (Polydesmus angustus) in der Laubstreu, unter Steinen, Rinde oder an Totholz. Sie besitzen keine Augen, tragen dafür aber eine massive "Ritterrüstung".

#Arthropoda #Tausendfüßer #Myriapoda #Doppelfüßer #Diplopoda #natur #nature #naturephotography

A macro shot of a juvenile millipede showing its head and the front 1/5th of the animal. It is white with white legs and a pinkish/tan head. The back of the millipede has darker brown which is barely showing the edge of in the photo.

Quick shot of an Ivory millipede juvenile (Chicobolus spinigerus "Miami, FL") half coiled up just kind of chilling.

#invertefest #invertebrates #millipedes #diplopoda #m43 #photography

Three Benoitolus sp. "Khao Sok" adults milling around some rotting hardwood and leaves. Where the UV light is shining the millipedes are turquoise.

A couple Benoitolus sp. "Khao Sok" with a UV light shining showing how they biofluoresce. You can see how the leaf causes a shadow from the UV flashlight.

#invertebrates #invertefest #diplopoda

A medium sized millipede with yellow ringed green segments, large eye spots, orange legs, & large segmented antennae snacks on some freeze dried green peas while on some rotting hardwod

A Benoitolus sp. "Khao Sok" adult snacking on some freeze dried peas.

#invertebrates #m43 #millipede #diplopoda

A green and yellow striped millipede is shown with half illuminated under a UV flashlight and is fluorescing.

A green and yellow striped millipede is poking around some rotting wood

A green and yellow striped millipede is poking around some rotting wood

A green and yellow striped millipede is poking around some rotting wood

Grabbed a few pictures of a Benoitolus sp. "Khao Sok" millipede. Also took one half illuminated with a UV light to show how this species will fluoresce.

#invertebrates #invertefest #millipedes #diplopoda

a macro photo cropped to the feet of a millipede. They are purple with clear tips and some clear hairs running down the undersides of the legs. The body segments are white and black, but only the white part is shown in this photo.

The coloration of the legs/feet of this millipede is mesmerizing (Chicobolus spinigerus "Brooksville, FL")

#invertebrates #invertefest #diplopoda #m43

An female adult Ivory Millipede forages for freeze dried peas on flake soil. It has the Ivory piano key style morphology, however in a departure from the normal appearance of mostly black on the top, the white portion goes all the way around as a stripe.

Here is a better photo that I took of the Brooksville, FL locality of Chicobolus spinigerus.

#invertebrates #invertefest #millipedes #diplopoda

a juvenile Ivory Millipede with purple and black horizontal stripes is rearing up the front 1/7th of its body while an older one forages that is about 3 to 4 times larger and has quite a bit less purple striping replaced with more black with white (approaching their eventual full adult morphology of black and white piano key markings)

This (Ivory Millipede) locality with the prominent purple striping are from Elliot Key, FL

#invertebrates #invertefest #diplopoda #myriapoda

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two adult Ivory Millipedes forage for freeze dried peas on flake soil. A male on the right and female on the left. they have the Ivory piano key style morphology, however in a departure from the normal appearance of mostly black on the top, the white portion goes all the way around as a stripe.

these two (Ivory Millipede) adults one with the more prominent white and black striping are from Brookfield, FL

#invertebrates #invertefest #diplopoda #myriapoda

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a group of 5 Ivory Millipedes are all eating some freeze dried peas on top of some flake soil. They are round millipedes and from late adolescent juvenile to early adolescent juvenile ages. They are light colored with a dark stripe are down their back, somewhat less pronounced than the traditional piano key morphology in the species.

It is very interesting to me how different the morphology is of Ivory Millipedes (Chicobolus spinigerus) depending on the specific local population they come from. These are all Ivory Millipedes, with this first group of lighter colored ones from Miami

#invertebrates #invertefest #diplopoda

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Ein zusammengerollter Doppelfüßer in Draufsicht auf steinigem Untergrund. Der Körper ist spiralförmig eingerollt und zeigt eine hellbraune bis bernsteinfarbene Färbung mit charakteristischen dunklen Flecken entlang der Segmente. Die glänzende, glatte Oberfläche des Chitinpanzers weist deutlich erkennbare Rillen und Strukturen auf. Auf der Kopfseite sind ein dunkler Augenfleck und feine Härchen sichtbar. Die defensive Einrollhaltung ist typisch für diese Tausendfüßer-Gruppe und dient dem Schutz der weicheren Bauchseite.

In der kalten Jahreszeit widme ich immer gerne dem Bodenleben. So sind die feinen Strukturen eines zusammengerollten Doppelfüßers immer wieder schön anzusehen.

#artenvielfalt #natur #nature #Doppelfüßer #Diplopoda #Gliederfüßer #Arthropoda #Tausendfüßer #Myriapoda

a millipede with slightly cloudy coloration on its exoskeleton (which is black with dark purple stripes and piano key white leading to the underside of the millipede. The millipede has recently molted and is eating its shed exoskeleton.

Caught a picture of a recently molted Ivory Millipede (Chicobolus spinigerus "Elliot Key, FL") eating its recently shed exoskeleton

#invertebrates #invertefest #diplopoda #millipedes

a bright red millipede eats some freeze dried peas. The millipede is medium sized, and has black spots regularly spaced down its back and each side. The millipede has large black simple eyes and distinctly segmented antennae.

A young adult Mozambique Red Fire Millipede (Centrobolus splendidus) is snacking on some freeze dried peas.

#diplopoda #millipede #invertebrates #invertefest #invertober #m43

A bright red millipede with black spots is curled up into a ball around a shredded leaf. The millipede is medium sized and an adult and is on a pile of rotting hardwood.

A Mozambique Red Fire Millipede (Centrobolus splendidus) is conglobated in a bed of rotting hardwood.

#diplopoda #millipede #invertebrates #invertefest #invertober #m43

about half of a young adult millipede is in frame with the focus on the head . It is foraging around some rotten hardwood (which is a primary food source) for other treats. It is black, purple, and white banded and is a large species of millipede.

Young adult male Chicobolus spinigerus "Elliot Key, FL" millipede foraging for snacks. Ivory millipedes are one of the most surface active and personable species of millipedes I have encountered.

#invertebrates #millipedes #invertefest #invertober #diplopoda

An adult millipede is chewing on some bright green freeze dried peas. The millipede's head is in focus and the body is out of focus, but you can still see the traditional black and white piano key pattern of the Ivory millipede

A young mature adult female Chicobolus spinigerus "Elliot Key, FL" is snacking on some freeze dried peas.

#diplopoda #entomology #invertefest

a juvenile millipede with purple and black horizontal stripes is rearing up the front 1/7th of its body while an older one forages that is about 3 to 4 times larger and has quite a bit less purple striping replaced with more black with white (approaching their eventual full adult morphology of black and white piano key markings)

Two juvenile Chicobolus spinigerus "Elliot Key, FL" millipedes forage around for their favorite snacks.

#diplopoda #invertefest #invertebrates #millipedes

Copulatory structures of #diplopoda are amazingly complex and Birk Rillich presented their functional #morphology in the species Acanthopetalum carinatum at #dzg2025

Giant African millipedes

Some good looking Giant African Milliedes!
S. Fisheri

They are excellent outreach animals and a crowd favorite!

#inverts #bugsky #diplopoda #millipede

#NewSpecies
New millipede from #colombia just tiptoed in:

Chonodesmus simplex

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/13600019-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #ChonodesmusSimplex

#FAIRdata
#OA #openaccess #taxonomy #ecology #wildlife #conservation #invertebrates #diplopoda #millipedes

Frontalansicht eines Polydesmus denticulatus (Gezähnter Bandfüßer), der über rotbraune, zersetzte organische Materie kriecht. Der durchscheinende, segmentierte Tausendfüßer zeigt seine charakteristische abgeflachte Körperform mit deutlich sichtbaren Körpersegmenten. Diese bodenbewohnenden Gliederfüßer spielen eine wichtige Rolle beim Abbau organischer Materie im Waldboden.

Nahaufnahme des Hinterendes eines Polydesmus denticulatus, das seine charakteristischen Körpermerkmale zeigt. Der gezähnte Bandfüßer präsentiert seinen segmentierten, durchscheinenden Körper mit den typischen seitlichen Fortsätzen an jedem Segment. Die bräunliche, fast glasartige Erscheinung macht die detaillierte Struktur des Exoskeletts sichtbar. Das Tier bewegt sich über verrottende Pflanzenreste auf dem Waldboden, seinem natürlichen Lebensraum, wo es als Zersetzer organischen Materials fungiert.

Ein Exemplar von Polydesmus denticulatus auf einer strukturierten Baumrinde. Der Bandfüßer zeigt seine charakteristische abgeflachte Körperform und die deutlich erkennbaren Segmentgrenzen. Die rotbraune, rissige Rinde zeigt den typischen Lebensraum dieser Tausendfüßer. Die Makroaufnahme verdeutlicht sowohl die filigranen Details der Tiere als auch die Textur ihrer natürlichen Umgebung im Wald-Ökosystem.

Der Sommer-Bandfüßer (Polydesmus denticulatus) fressen Pilze, morsches Holz und Bodenstreu. Sie sehen aus, als ob sie eine Ritterrüstung tragen würden.

#artenvielfalt #nature #natur #Doppelfüßer #Diplopoda #Myriapoda #Bandfüßer #Polydesmidae #bodentiere

Photo of a dead slow worm infested by small millipedes.

Scary garden finding today:
The dead body of a slow worm (Anguis veronensis) was still "beating"...
It was infested by small millipedes (Blaniulus guttulatus) and maggots 😅

Well, this is the circle of life, recycle and get recycled ♻️

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#Diplopoda #Reptilia

#NewSpecies!
New millipede from #laos just tiptoed in:

Tylopus namnonensis

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/D87287BA-...
Publication: doi.org/10.5252/zoos...
#Zoosystema #TylopusNamnonensis

#FAIRdata
#OA #science #biology #taxonomy #ecology #nature #conservation #animals #diplopoda #millipedes

#NewSpecies!
New millipede from #india just tiptoed in:

Chondromorpha lakroda

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD87E8-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #ChondromorphaLakroda

#FAIRdata
#science #biology #taxonomy #ecology #nature #wildlife #conservation #diplopoda #millipedes

These are the 1st new paradoxosomatid millipedes being recorded from northern Borneo in nearly 30 years. I'm glad to have worked with the best millipede taxonomists in the region to describe them and kickstart more research into these underappreciated and understudied #invertebrates! #Diplopoda
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#millepiedi #millipede #invertebrates #diplopoda #myriapoda #nature #photography #invertebratezoology #photographer #photo #canon #canonphotography #canonphoto #canon1300d #millipedes #animals #biodiversit #diplopod #arthropoda #milpies #naturalhistory #biology #microscope

A frontal macro shot of a millipede. Its head is partially buried in wood as it navigates the decomposing substrate. The detail reveals antennae and fine leg structures beneath its shiny, ridged exoskeleton.

A sandworm? Not quite, just a very shy millipede likely in the genus Abacion, found curled beneath a log.
#Diplopoda #macrophotography #Invertebrate 🪲🪳 🌿

A dark brown, nearly black millipede walks towards the camera across a flat piece of wood. The photo is so close that most of the millipede is out of focus, but its face is visible, with a visor-like dark swathe over its eyes, and two small, hairy antennae gently probing the ground in front of it.

Millipedes! We have a lot of them, mostly living in the soil and under debris, helping with the breakdown of dead matter. This one is in the family Julidae.

#millipede #diplopoda #invertebrates #arthropod #julidae #inaturalist #macro #macrophotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #canada

A long, pale orange millipede with a rounded carapace and a round, pale head runs across a dark, grainy piece of wood. The ripples in its many legs are visible.

A curious little millipede, probably in the Caseyidae family. I always love finding creatures I've never seen before!

#millipede #diplopoda #caseyidae #arthropod #invertebrates #macro #macrophotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #inaturalist #canada

#NewSpecies!
New millipede from #madagascar just tiptoed by:

Dalodesmus speophilus

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/42B51489-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #DalodesmusSpeophilus

#FAIRdata
##biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #invertebrates #diplopoda #millipedes