Narceus americanus
Adam Cochran

Narceus americanus

The second longest North American millipede... I have three of them, all retrieved from the wild. I keep them in 20 gallon aquarium converted into a vivarium.

Having a hard time getting these pedes sexed.
In terms of length, orthoporus ornatus is longer and narceus gordanus is thicker in girth. Good photos nonetheless and they are quite big.
 
@Adam Cochran N. Gordanus is a nice millipede but they’re more subterranean and chances are you won’t see them above surface that often. Chcicobolus spinigerus is smaller but pretty looking and also pretty surface active too.
 
@mantisfan101 I had to carefully rip apart rotting hardwood many years old to find these pedes. They sometimes live among some sort of carpenter ant species as I seen this myself and I'm not sure if the relationship is beneficial or only beneficial toward the millipede.
 

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