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Where is the giant African millipede legal?

Archispirostreptus gigas. Restricted in 2 of the 2 jurisdictions checked. Every entry quotes the rule it comes from.

Alabama: no restriction found for giant African millipedeAlaska: no restriction found for giant African millipedeArizona: no restriction found for giant African millipedeArkansas: no restriction found for giant African millipedeCalifornia: no restriction found for giant African millipedeColorado: no restriction found for giant African millipedeConnecticut: no restriction found for giant African millipedeDelaware: no restriction found for giant African millipedeFlorida: no restriction found for giant African millipedeGeorgia: no restriction found for giant African millipedeHawaii: no restriction found for giant African millipedeIdaho: no restriction found for giant African millipedeIllinois: no restriction found for giant African millipedeIndiana: no restriction found for giant African millipedeIowa: no restriction found for giant African millipedeKansas: no restriction found for giant African millipedeKentucky: no restriction found for giant African millipedeLouisiana: no restriction found for giant African millipedeMaine: no restriction found for giant African millipedeMaryland: no restriction found for giant African millipedeMassachusetts: no restriction found for giant African millipedeMichigan: no restriction found for giant African millipedeMinnesota: no restriction found for giant African millipedeMississippi: no restriction found for giant African millipedeMissouri: no restriction found for giant African millipedeMontana: no restriction found for giant African millipedeNebraska: no restriction found for giant African millipedeNevada: no restriction found for giant African millipedeNew Hampshire: no restriction found for giant African millipedeNew Jersey: no restriction found for giant African millipedeNew Mexico: no restriction found for giant African millipedeNew York: no restriction found for giant African millipedeNorth Carolina: no restriction found for giant African millipedeNorth Dakota: no restriction found for giant African millipedeOhio: no restriction found for giant African millipedeOklahoma: no restriction found for giant African millipedeOregon: no restriction found for giant African millipedePennsylvania: no restriction found for giant African millipedeRhode Island: permit required for giant African millipedeSouth Carolina: no restriction found for giant African millipedeSouth Dakota: no restriction found for giant African millipedeTennessee: no restriction found for giant African millipedeTexas: no restriction found for giant African millipedeUtah: no restriction found for giant African millipedeVermont: no restriction found for giant African millipedeVirginia: no restriction found for giant African millipedeWashington: no restriction found for giant African millipedeWest Virginia: no restriction found for giant African millipedeWisconsin: no restriction found for giant African millipedeWyoming: no restriction found for giant African millipedeDistrict of Columbia: banned for giant African millipede

Select a state for the rule behind its colour. Alaska, Hawaii and the District of Columbia are drawn out of position so they can be clicked.

What the colours mean

  • Banned (1)No legal way to keep one, and no permit to apply for.
  • Permit required (1)Legal, but you need a permit or licence before the animal arrives.
  • Conditions applyLegal without a permit only if a stated condition is met, such as a generation, a size or an indoor-only rule.
  • UnclearThe rule genuinely does not resolve for this animal. Ask the agency before relying on it.
  • No restriction foundNothing in the body of law we read restricts this animal here.

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Every restriction on the giant African millipede

2 of the 2 jurisdictions checked restrict this animal in some way. The rest had no rule we could find.

District of Columbia

Banned§ 8-1808(j)(1)
a person shall not import into the District, possess... any living member of the animal kingdom, including those born or raised in captivity, except the following

No invertebrate category exists in the permitted list, so every millipede, spider and scorpion is outside it. DC bans by omission rather than by name.

How this rule works: Closed list. Seven permitted categories; everything else is barred as a household pet.

D.C. Code § 8-1808(j), Prohibited conduct →

Rhode Island

Permit required§ 3.8(G)
Nothing in this Part shall prohibit any person from possession of exotic animals or native animals of the class Insecta unless the animals of that class appear on the list of prohibited insects

The blanket invertebrate exemption is written for the class Insecta. A millipede is a myriapod, so on the literal wording it stays inside the definition of exotic animal and needs a permit, exactly like the tarantula and the scorpion.

How this rule works: One of the most species-specific schemes in the country. § 3.6 defines domestic animals, § 3.7 sets general prohibitions, § 3.9 governs permits, and § 3.17 is the long exempt list of animals that need no exotic animal possession permit. Anything not domestic, not native and not on the § 3.17 list needs a permit.

250-RICR-40-05-3, Rules and Regulations Governing the Importation and Possession of Wild Animals →

For the full write-up, including the states that get reported wrongly, read the giant African millipede legal guide.

Past the legal question? See the giant African millipede profile.

How to read this

A state with no colour is one where nothing in the law we read restricts that animal. That is not the same as a guarantee: it means no restriction was found in the specific body of law checked for that state, which is recorded alongside each jurisdiction. Cities and counties regularly ban animals their state allows, and several states say so in their own rules.

Hatched grey means the rule genuinely does not resolve. Usually a definition arguably reaches the animal without naming it, and the honest answer is to ask the agency rather than to guess. Those entries are marked unclear on purpose rather than being rounded to a yes or a no.

Every entry links to the regulation it came from. None of this is legal advice, laws change without much notice, and the agency that issues the permit is always the last word. For the federal layer and how state schemes are structured, see the exotic pet legal hub.