Mystery millipedes discovered

Fri, Jun 12, 2009

The Nation/Asia News Network

Eleven were discovered in the southern provinces of Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Trang, Krabi, Pang-Nga and Satun, while the other was found in Uthai Thani in the Central Region, said Professor Somsak Panha, a lecturer at Chulalongkorn Univer-sity's Faculty of Science and the man who led the team that made the discoveries.

"Their unique colouring, habitats and reproductive organs were what separated them from other previously known species," Somsak said, adding that all of the newly discovered millipedes have been identified as belonging to the Thyropygus genus.

An estimated 105 species had been discovered in Thailand by foreign scientists before Somsak's team began their quest in 2005. To date, around 3,000 millipede species have been identified around the world.

-- The Nation 2009/06/12

Great, but the big question is How do they taste if baked??

My wife was bit last year by one. She was in agonizing pain for hours.

or is that a centipede???

Anyway it was a crushedapede after I got to it.