GemTheBirder
Arachnopeon
- Joined
- Aug 26, 2018
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Choctella cumminsi, to be exact. I ran across several of these small millipedes at a local parka few days ago. Info on this species/genus seems to be pretty scarce, even bugguide only has a few photos and very little info. From what I can gather, this genus is found only in a small area in the Southeast and is made up of two species. Choctella cumminsi is endemic to middle Tennessee, from Nashville and south. The other species, C. hubrichti, is endemic to northern Alabama. What they lacked in size, they made up for in colors. The photos don't show it great, but they were a beautiful shiny galactic swirl of blue-blacks and red-oranges with the segments seperated by silverish bands. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to collect any because i was on park property, but still wanted to share some photos with the community since info on them is so scarce.