On the scolopendromorph centipede genus Mimops Kraepelin, 1903, with a description of a new family (Chilopoda : Scolopendromorpha)

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.