Emerald-Banded Pill Millipede

Millipedes

MOQ 100 head

Partners Only

10 – 18 mm body length (small-to-medium pill millipede)

Non-venomous. Rolls into a tight ball when threatened and releases only a weak quinone-type defensive fluid that can lightly stain skin. Harmless to handle.

Indochinese moist evergreen and karst forest. An Oriental glomerid genus of the Hyleoglomeris/Rhopalomeris fauna; lives in leaf litter, under logs and in rotting wood. 300 – 1,500 m.

Detritivore — decaying leaf litter, rotting wood, fungi and decomposing plant matter.

22 – 26 °C ambient — 20 °C cool end

75 – 90 %. Keep substrate consistently moist with a deep leaf-litter layer.

None required (nocturnal/cryptic).

Decaying hardwood leaf litter and rotten wood as the staple; supplement with cucumber, squash and a calcium source.

Humid terrestrial set-up with 5 – 8 cm of moist organic substrate, deep leaf litter and rotting wood; bark hides. Colony-tolerant. 20 × 20 cm footprint.

Harmless, slow and secretive; balls up when disturbed. Peaceful colony species, safe to handle.