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JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY
Volume 40, Issue 19-20, Pages 1231-1239Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00222930600861231
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Chilopoda; China; Mimopidae; Mimops; new family; Scolopendromorpha
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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.
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