About Pleuroloma flavipes Rafinesque, 1820
Pleuroloma flavipes, commonly called the traveling cherry millipede, is a flat-backed millipede species belonging to the family Xystodesmidae. This species has the widest distribution of any xystodesmid millipede, occurring in eastern North America. Its range extends from southeastern North Dakota east to Connecticut, and south to North Carolina, northern Louisiana, and southern Texas. Individuals of Pleuroloma flavipes are sometimes seen in large groups that appear to move together in a single direction, which gives the species another common name: wandering cherry millipede. A 1950 report documented an aggregation of around 6,000 individuals on a single bridge at McCormick's Creek State Park, Indiana. This species has extremely variable coloration, and it looks similar to multiple species in the genera Apheloria and Brachoria due to mimicry.
