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title: "Traveling Cherry Millipede"
description: "Pleuroloma flavipes — Inne zwierzęta. Pleuroloma flavipes, commonly known as the traveling cherry millipede, is a species of flat-backed millipede in the family Xystodesmidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/traveling-cherry-millipede
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Traveling Cherry Millipede

> Pleuroloma flavipes — Inne zwierzęta. Pleuroloma flavipes, commonly known as the traveling cherry millipede, is a species of flat-backed millipede in the family Xystodesmidae.

- Scientific name: *Pleuroloma flavipes*
- Category: `other` (Inne zwierzęta)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las)
- iNaturalist observations: 4507
- Wikidata: [Q6448554](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6448554)
- iNaturalist taxon: [125911](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/125911)

## Names

- en: Traveling Cherry Millipede

## Countries with the most observations

US (1576), CA (43)

## Summary

Pleuroloma flavipes, commonly known as the traveling cherry millipede, is a species of flat-backed millipede in the family Xystodesmidae. It has the widest distribution of any species of xystodesmid millipede and is found in eastern North America from southeastern North Dakota, eastward to Connecticut, and southward to North Carolina, northern Louisiana, and southern Texas. Pleuroloma flavipes millipedes are occasionally observed in large aggregations of individuals where they appear to move en masse in a certain direction, hence the common name "wandering cherry millipede". In a report from 1950, an aggregation of…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleuroloma_flavipes

## Photo

![Traveling Cherry Millipede](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/traveling-cherry-millipede/medium.jpg)

Photo: Adam Kranz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24446867

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/traveling-cherry-millipede?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).