I got some exciting news today! Some of the millipedes I collected recently and sent to an expert in Virginia have turned out to be a species that hasn’t been collected since 1915! 98 years to the exact same date actually, December 26.

The ones I collected represent a new county record for a species only known from one place in Ohio, and I have better habitat data. How exciting!

I’m bouncing off the walls now, this is so cool. The above photo shows part of a male of the species, the weird inflated structure is part of the gonopod complex, used for mating.