| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Authors: | J. G. E. Lewis |
| Journal: | Journal of Natural History |
| Volume: | 40 |
| Issue: | 19-20 |
| Pagination: | 1231-1239 |
| Date Published: | 18/09/2006 |
| ISSN: | 0022-2933 |
| Keywords: | Chilopoda, China, Mimopidae, Mimops, new family, Scolopendromorpha |
| Abstract: | The type material of the Chinese species Mimops orientalis Kraepelin, 1903 and Brazilian Mimops occidentalis Chamberlin, 1914 has been examined. Mimops orientalis is not a cryptopid. It is here placed in a new family Mimopidae characterized by the possession of a single ocellus on each side of the head plate, forcipular coxosternal plates without teeth, 21 pairs of legs and the ultimate leg‐bearing segment and ultimate legs with numerous small spines. The two syntypes of M. occidentalis are an early adolescens stadium of a scolopendrid, too immature for the genus to be determined. |
| URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930600861231 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00222930600861231 |
| Short Title: | Journal of Natural History |
| Citation Key: | 337 |