Flat-backed Millipede

Thanks a lot Frazier..

Hi Jason. Many times species identification seems easy but just as often it turns out to be more complicated. We don't have access to live specimens or laboratories on Project Noah so we rely mostly on internet sources. But apart from the way an organism looks in a digital image, we must also make sure a suggested species also is known to occur in the region of our spotting. Why? Because many species across the world resemble other species. So looks are not enough. Species suggestions are ... "suggestions". The point to all of this is I am seeing that the genus Auturus is North American and does not occur in Indonesia. Please correct me if I am in error. See the maps here http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_li... Of course some relatively few species have been introduced but that cannot be assumed without references backing that up. And remember, if there is another image "identified" on a photo sharing website as a certain species in your region that does not automatically mean it was ID'ed correctly; be sure to verify its range on another more scientific website. Cheers

Thanks Ary!