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False Flat-Backed Millipede

Nanogona polydesmoides

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) aowynrose, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 169, February 125, March 195, April 307, May 443, June 483, July 517, August 445, September 326, October 244, November 133, December 104.
United States3,491
Alaska3,491
United Kingdom268
England221
France48
Scotland31
Bretagne16
Wales13
Nouvelle-Aquitaine7
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes7

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassMillipedes · Diplopoda
OrderSausage Millipedes · Chordeumatida
FamilyCraspedosomatidae
GenusNanogona

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise False Flat-Backed Millipede with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.