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This species is uniformly pale and cream-colored, with a highly elongated body, only about 1 mm (0.039 in) in diameter, but reaching up to 95.7 mm (3.8 in) in length. This millipede has a cone-shaped head and unusually large, thick antennae, but has no eyes. The male specimens range from
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