Apheloria montana (Apheloria montana)

Flat-Backed Millipede (Apheloria montana) Crawling through moist leaf litter in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest/Keown Fall Trail in Walker County, Georgia, US.

Apheloria montana is a millipede belonging to the Xystodesmidae family. It also belongs to the Polydesmida order, one which has the capability of producing cyanide as a defense mechanism. A. montana has a limited range and is only found in isolated parts of Eastern Tennessee, SE Kentucky, SW Virginia, NC, and the Northern parts of Alabama and Georgia. It is ranked as Vulnerable (S3) in both Tennessee and Virginia. Apheloria,Apheloria montana,Flat-Backed Millipede,Flat-backed Millipedes,Geotagged,Polydesmida,United States,Winter,Xystodesmidae,diplopoda,millipede,myriapod,myriapoda

Appearance

They are aposematically colored with black, red, and yellow.

Naming

Synonym: Fontaria montana

Distribution

In the United States, this species occurs in central, eastern Tennessee, north into southeastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia, east into the French Broad River drainage basin of North Carolina, south into northern
Alabama and Georgia.

Defense

They are capable of producing cyanide as a defense mechanism.

References:

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Taxonomy
Kingdom	Animalia
Division	Arthropoda
Class	Diplopoda
Order	Polydesmida
Family	Xystodesmidae
Genus	Apheloria
Species	Apheloria montana

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United States of America