Striped millipede

Ommatoiulus sabulosus
(Julidae)

Striped millipedeon RikenMon's Nature-Guide

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A sturdy black-brown millipede with a double orange-brown length line on its back. 

The body keeps growing by adding segments, and adults have 35-55 parts. It prefers dry, warm soil like sand or dunes and lives off dead plants.

⇔ l. 20-45 mm

All year around active and often seen in daytime. Millipedes have two pairs of legs at each segment except the head and end.

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Size

Shape

Colour

Leg

Back

Feeler

Striking

Size 10-50 mm

Shape Crawler

Colour

Leg Many

Back Smooth

Feeler None/tiny

Striking Slender body

10-50 mm

Crawler

Many

Smooth

None/tiny

Slender body

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Striped millipede

Grote tweestreep

Sandschnurfüßer

Ommatoiulus sabulosus [L.]

Ommatoiulus sabulosus [L.]

Ommatoiulus sabulosus [L.]

Ommatoiulus sabulosus [L.]

Ommatoiulus sabulosus [L.]

Ommatoiulus sabulosus [L.]

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