Key Identification Features
- Their base body color is black or blue-black, marked with alternating brown bands; in some individuals, this banding is largely indistinct from the base color.
- This species is distinguished by a broad yellow or orange dorsal band that runs from the collum, the first body segment, all the way to the telson.
- A distinct bold black stripe runs down the center of this colored band, and the base body color of the millipede is solid black.
- The simple eyes, called ocelli, are arranged in distinct patches on either side of the head; each patch contains four rows of ocelli.
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