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Banded Millipede (probably Heterocladosoma sp.)

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Millipede - probably Heterocladosoma sp. (Paradoxosomatidae) near Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Photographed on 15 March 2009.Found living under bark on eucalypt tree."There are parts needed for ID that aren't in the photos.However, the banded millipede is almost certainly a Heterocladosoma. Ifound a new species from Toowoomba's Boyce Reserve in the QueenslandMuseum collection which could be your guy." (ref. pers. comm. Bob Mesibov, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania).www.inaturalist.org/observations/48278675

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