CLOSED: Unknown worm.

Dear all, another one! I don't know this criter either! Again. Another story... lol. When I was walking with my nephew in the evening I said I want to add the new worm to theBugFiles. So he didn't hesitate to help me and found this unknown to me "worm", which, despite his ugly look was kind enough to pose in front of my camera on the path near my house in Sochi. Lol.

Unknown worm. About 3 inches long.

This message was edited Nov 26, 2008 8:15 PM

The same worm.

it looks like some kind of centipede, not a worm.

I agree! Thank's, I've noticed legs after posting! Oops... My fault!

It's a millipede - there's an entire class of them, with thousands of different species:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millipede

Claypa,thank you so much! At last, we know the class!!! Well, I've seen those cuting the stems of the fresh planted by me tomato seedlings... That time, I was a new gardener and didn't know much about the vermins. Lol. Now, I want to know the SPECIES!!!! That one was huge!!! ( At least, In my opinion).

Hi KG, I have to go out now but will take a look around to later see what I can find. I recently added a millipede to BugFiles, a black one, they are so interesting!

Wallaby1, great! I rely on your help, as always. I've also got a friend, who is an instructor at the Moscow state U, but his speciality is the Botany sistematics.

I have found one which looks very close. This one is Madrid, Ommatoiulus sabulosus family Julidae

http://mediateca.educa.madrid.org/imagen/ver.php?id_imagen=gmdnfvz7skwxdclu&id_grupo=229

Another on a German site,

http://www.hufeisenkrater.de/4694/4748.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val*

Called 'Striped MIllipede'

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Ommatoiulus%20sabulosus&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

Although this site here say si thas two ginger strips along it's back, yours looks to be the reverse. Your first pic does seem to show two dark stripes along the 'edges' near the top.

If not that species I would say it's the same Genus. Are your pics showing it lighter than it actually was?

The last one was with photoflash. The others are not. I'm always trying the real light. It was evening, though, that time.
Anyways, Wallaby1, thank you a lot endeed for the links!!!!! I'll study those!

I found more Ommatoiulus species, if you click on each then the 'Global map' link it will tell you where they are.

http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Cylindroiulus

For example Cylindroiulus britannicus, clicking on the nearest location to you gives more information such as height above sea level.

http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20m?kind=Cylindroiulus+britannicus

http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20l?id=GBIF9160090

All you need do then is search for the species as there isn't any pics.

No way! I'm impressed, endeed! Now, I real obliged to identify one.

Hmm, there's lots of them though! That only gives found specimens locations I think.

I found a German Diplopoda forum with an 'English Corner', or if you speak German.. whichever, that is probably a good place to get an ID!

http://forum.diplopoda.de/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=1215

Wallaby, I do! I didn't know those forums exist even. You're the real internet surfer! For sure, you win the DG hands down!

As I was kindly informed by the www.diplopoda.de administrator Peter, it is Megaphyllum hercules. The species is the largest in the genus, and it's known from the region around the Black Sea.

Thank's to our German friends!!!

Isn't it wonderful to be able to find these things out through the internet and peoples' generosity! I couldn't find a pic of it, but it is listed in a chart for Albania and Bulgaria. Seems it is in more places than that!

http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:DIMoRqFGBSEJ:www.nmnh.bas.bg/pdf/NMNHS_Diplopoda_NonTypes.doc+Megaphyllum+hercules&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=uk&ie=UTF-8

It is in the Family Julidae which we already have, you must put this one in there KG!

http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/M/Megaphyllum_hercules/

http://www.biologie.uni-ulm.de/cgi-bin/query_all/details.pl?id=80919&stufe=7&typ=ZOO

Thank's Wallaby!

Yep, I've already broused the net, but couldn't find the images, too!

Anyways, sounds like that might be correct. Let's try to add those images and the species name to Julidae.

Thank you for the links once more!