Please Help ID Millipedes

mickiem

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I started one thread but I can't edit it, so I am starting again. I found these two millipedes in my garden in Cincinnati. They are small. Of course I don't know the age, but at this size are comparable to a scarlet. The long skinny one is very wiry and has a darker stripe down his back. The shorter fatter one is very glossy; small but very attractive. Both have white legs. I only have one of each but I will find more! They are near cherry, hackberry and walnut; no oak near me. two millipedes2.JPG two millipedes.JPG
 
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mickiem

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No one? I found a second of the fatter shorter one.
 
Hisserdude

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These both appear to be Juilds, which can be very hard to distinguish from each other and usually can't be identified without genital dissection.

That being said, the more slender specimen looks like a Brachyiulus sp to me, don't know what the shorter one is though.
 
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Hisserdude

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Just a total guess, but the stockier one may be a Cylindroiulus species, those get to around 30 mm when mature though, so yours is either young or something else entirely.
 
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