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| ftorres |
Xystocheir dissecta Luminous MillipedeHello ALl,Thank ANdrew for the great flat millis you gave me. Luminous Millipede Xystocheir dissecta Genus Xystocheir Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods Class Diplopoda - Millipedes Order Polydesmida Family Xystodesmidae Genus Xystocheir Species dissecta - Xystocheir dissecta ???? others Motyxia sequoia ???? http://science.csumb.edu/~fwatson...3/2007/critters/630w/DSC05103.jpg http://science.csumb.edu/~fwatson...3/2007/critters/630w/DSC05087.jpg Motyxia exilis Loomis, 1953 California (Woodford). See [About maps] Motyxia exilis Loomis, 1953; Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., 43 (12): 422, f. 20, TL: Woodford, near Tehachapi, Kern Co., California Motyxia exilis ; [NAML, 39] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Motyxia expansa Loomis, 1953 California (Fort Tejon). See [About maps] Motyxia expansa Loomis, 1953; Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., 43 (12): 422, f. 19, TL: Fort Tejon, Kern Co., California Motyxia expansa ; [NAML, 39] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Motyxia kerna Chamberlin, 1941 California (Tulare Co.). See [About maps] Motyxia kerna Chamberlin, 1941; Bull. Univ. Utah, biol. ser., 6 (5): 15, f. 29, TL: 12 miles northeast of Hammond, Tulare Co., California Motyxia kerna ; [NAML, 39] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Motyxia monica Chamberlin, 1944 California (Meadow Canyon). See [About maps] Motyxia monica Chamberlin, 1944; Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 57: 113, f. 1-3, TL: Meadow Canyon, Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles Co., California Motyxia monica ; [NAML, 39] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Motyxia pior Chamberlin, 1941 California (Tulare Co.). See [About maps] Motyxia pior Chamberlin, 1941; Bull. Univ. Utah, biol. ser., 6 (5): 16, TL: 12 miles east of Hammond, Tulare Co., California Motyxia pior ; [NAML, 39] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Motyxia tejona Chamberlin, 1947 California (Fort Tejon). See [About maps] Motyxia tejona Chamberlin, 1947; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 99: 25, f. 4, TL: Fort Tejon, Kern Co., California Motyxia tejona ; [NAML, 39] |
| cacoseraph |
franscisco, what about Harpaphe haydeniana?
i also have two other species that fluoresce, but i kept them for myself one is BLUE with yellow spots Harpaphe intaminata type locality Santa Cruz Co., California. i caught mine in Santa Cruz 
http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/l.../eurydesmidae/harpaphe/index.html and the others are clearish with yellow spots. and are still clear over a week after i caught them 
i will try to find out key features to look for
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| ftorres |
Hello ALl,
ANdrew you really have to take me to that park to collect a few (thousands) more, I have a 10 gallon set up I want to use to set these guys up. francisco |
| cacoseraph |
let me see about distances and stuff. we might be able to swing by after the bats thingy
dude. they are 22 miles apart! |
| cacoseraph |
hey francisco
Rowland SHelly confirmed the Xy genus for the fluories we caught for troll
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| NBond1986 |
my millipedes arent doing well.
I left them in their container with humid paper towel overnight. I rehoused them the next day. They weren't doing well for some reason, and were acting sluggish/kocked-out. A couple seem to have died, and the rest just don't move, but I think they're alive. This really pisses me off, I was really loving those guys. I hope some survive. |
| cacoseraph |
i had a few die on the way down from my previous trip but most made it. i packed them in leaf litter with no paper towels
i still have a decent amount knocking around in my multispec cage. i added the wood er, stuff last night. we can ask josh_r i believe he said he knows someone who bred them
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| cacoseraph |
also, i think i heard ken mention they are somewhat difficul to ship and live transport
they make pretty strong repugs. my hand REEKED of it after collecting about 30... and still faintly smelled of it two days later |
| NBond1986 |
Well, if you've got enough live ones that you're willing to part with.....we can make a discount from the t-shirt money you owe me. 
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| NBond1986 |
by the way, that's really good to know about the shipping survival.
I guess I should have given extra care and attention when packing them up. Used leaf litter instead of paper towel. I really was into those guys. |
| cacoseraph |
what is kind of funny is i almost repacked them in PT
er, i am kind of running out of them. and i owe at least one person some. i think i will just have to paypal you on friday i could probaby get you 1.1 assuming they don't have some funky sex ratios going on though |
| NBond1986 |
Okay, I just got home and checked on all the "carcasses"
They were all in the same spot as before, some curled up, some stretched out. I did a count, and played with each one for an extended period of time, until they woke up in my hand. It's not as bad as I thought. I have 7 alive, and 5 dead. I noticed something about the dead ones......They are much whiter/pailer, clearly NOT having much in their gut (which usually gives them a sort of darkish hue) I have a theory..... When I got home from the trip, I noticed LOTS of poo in the container. Some of them got inbetween the paper towel and the container during the trip, thus getting knocked around a lot more than those that stayed INSIDE the papertowel. Getting knocked around, probably over-triggered their pooing defense mechanism. When I got home, there was a LOT of poo on the outside. I think that these guys emptied their gut too quickly without replacement of contents, and slowly died overnight. The rest of them still have the dark hue (filled gut), and are doing fine. Sound like a valid theory? |
| NBond1986 |
okay.....scratch that theory.....
completely wrong. I took a second look. |
| Celeste |
Yeah -- I had bad luck with the North Carolina flat millipedes I got at the January BBQ. I got two there and bought two more at Pet Jungle the next day. I had them in a kritter keeper on about 3 inches of oak leaf mould covered with sterilized dried maple leaves. Tried to keep them unifomly on the just-barely-damp to dry side. But when I checked on them a couple of weeks ago, all were dead. Nothing but empty shells left. I don't know if they were too damp or too dry. I hadn't checked on them in about a month (just misted their enclosure every day or two), because they burrow, so to check on them would have required digging them out each time.
The ones I got from Andrew two weeks ago also seem to be acting sluggish, and I am worried about them, too. I have them on a shallow layer of leaf mould and dried leaves so I can *see* them and monitor them better. They are in the house, very warm. Maybe I should put them out on the porch or in the garage where it is cool? (I had the North Carolina ones on the floor in the bathroom where it was very cool -- maybe 65-70 degrees F -- and usually pretty humid). I'm going to try tossing a dead/rotting camellia blossom or two in there when I get home. :-/ -- Celeste |
| NBond1986 |
at the may 3 BBBQ, i can give you some rotting wood from the hardwood trees in the park where the milli's were collected.
i have mine on coco-fibre, and rotting wood. they were sluggish for the first two days or so, but now they seem to be doing better. |