taxonID	type	description	language	source
670987F6FFC3FFF0EADAFD9247203C1A.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis With a single ocellus on each side of the head plate. Forcipular coxosternal plates without teeth. Twenty-one pairs of legs. Ultimate leg-bearing segment and most podomeres of ultimate legs with numerous small spines.	en	Lewis, John G. E. (2006): On the scolopendromorph centipede genus Mimops Kraepelin, 1903, with a description of a new family (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha). Journal of Natural History 40 (19 - 20): 1231-1239, DOI: 10.1080/00222930600861231, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930600861231
670987F6FFC3FFF7EACDFCFE449F3C5B.taxon	description	(Figures 1 – 13)	en	Lewis, John G. E. (2006): On the scolopendromorph centipede genus Mimops Kraepelin, 1903, with a description of a new family (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha). Journal of Natural History 40 (19 - 20): 1231-1239, DOI: 10.1080/00222930600861231, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930600861231
670987F6FFC3FFF7EACDFCFE449F3C5B.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype: China, Süd Schensi (5 Shaanxi Province), August 1903, ZMUH. Description of holotype Length 45 mm. Head plate about as long as wide (Figure 1), very finely punctate with posterior margin overlying tergite 1. A single unpigmented ocellus (‘‘ weissen Augenfleck’ ’, Kraepelin 1903). Left antenna damaged, right with 17 antennomeres. Antennomeres at most 1.5 times as long as wide, the basal six glabrous dorsally, the following ones appear to have lost many setae. Kraepelin (1903) stated that the basal seven antennomeres are glabrous, the following only setose laterally, almost glabrous dorsally and ventrally. Clypeus partially obscured but without the transverse row of setae seen in Cryptops. Pretarsus (claw) of second maxilla pointed and without accessory spurs. Not hooked as in Cryptops. Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternum, with a lenticular plate delimited by an oblique suture on each side (Figure 2). The plates lack teeth but each has a prominent seta behind the anterior margin. Forcipular trochanteroprefemur with a low median lobe in the position of the median process or tooth of scolopendrids. Tergite 1 with anterior transverse (ring) sulcus but no longitudinal sutures (Figure 1). Tergites 2 – 20 with paramedian sutures. These are poorly developed on tergite 3. (Kraepelin stated that they are incomplete anteriorly on this tergite.) There are longitudinal sulci lateral to the paramedian sutures, more pronounced on the long tergites (Figure 3). Tergite 21 with small spines (Figure 4) and with a narrow posterior median depression. Sternites (Figure 5) with complete paramedian sulci from 3 to 19, almost complete on 2. Sternite 21 attenuated posteriorly, almost triangular with peripheral spines (Figure 6). Each coxopleuron with an oval pore field of many small pores. Without setae but with small scattered spines. The coxopleural process digitiform and also covered with small spines (Figures 6, 7). All legs with two-segmented tarsi. Two tibial spurs on legs 1 – 18, 19 with one, 20 without. Legs 2 – 20 each with two tarsal spurs. Not observable on leg 1. Anterior legs with very few spines ventrally on the prefemur and femur and a distal transverse row dorsomedially on the prefemur, femur, and tibia (Figure 8). Leg 19 with prefemur, femur, and tibia spined dorsally, medially, and ventrally, and tarsus 1 with spines dorsomedially (Kraepelin gives femur, patella, and tibia, and proximal tarsus of 19 and 20 thickly ‘‘ dornkörnig’ ’). Leg 20 with prefemur and femur spined on all surfaces (Figure 9), tibia on all but the medial surface and tarsus 1 spined dorsally and medially. Pretarsal accessory spurs (claw spines) present. Ultimate legs (Figure 10), which are detached, have the prefemur and femur covered in very small spines, except for a median ventral strip (Figures 11, 12). The tibia spined on all but the median ventral and medial surfaces, and tarsus 1 has a few dorsomedial spines. Each spine is associated with a short seta. The ventral pore-free strip of the prefemur, femur, and tibia of one terminal leg lies in a groove which is continued on to tarsus 1 as a shallow gutter. On the other leg the grooves are very shallow. Pretarsal accessory spurs are absent. There are nine pairs of small round or oval spiracles (absent on segment 7). The spiracle cup filled with humps (Figure 13), resembling those of the Otostigminae. The spiracles require further investigation.	en	Lewis, John G. E. (2006): On the scolopendromorph centipede genus Mimops Kraepelin, 1903, with a description of a new family (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha). Journal of Natural History 40 (19 - 20): 1231-1239, DOI: 10.1080/00222930600861231, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930600861231
670987F6FFC4FFF5EACCFCD845B03CF7.taxon	description	(Figures 14 – 20)	en	Lewis, John G. E. (2006): On the scolopendromorph centipede genus Mimops Kraepelin, 1903, with a description of a new family (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha). Journal of Natural History 40 (19 - 20): 1231-1239, DOI: 10.1080/00222930600861231, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930600861231
670987F6FFC4FFF5EACCFCD845B03CF7.taxon	description	Description of syntypes Specimen 1. The specimen is very delicate, pre-moult with the old cuticle lifted. It was examined in 70 % ethanol and not cleared. Length 11 mm. With 17 almost glabrous antennomeres. Head plate as long as wide with sides converging posteriorly (Figure 14), slightly overlapping tergite 1. Chamberlin stated ‘‘ longitudinally depressed in caudal region each side of middle’ ’ but this is not obvious. Ocelli absent. Clypeus without setae, labrum with low median tooth. Telopodite of second maxilla with a rudimentary pretarsus (claw). A single seta on the inner surface of telopodite 3 behind the pretarsus. Coxosternal tooth plates semicircular, each with three minute teeth (Figures 15, 16). Transverse limiting sulci not apparent, although these were illustrated by Chamberlin (1914, Figure 5). Forcipular trochanteroprefemur with low median process or tooth. Tergite 1 with indistinct anterior transverse (ring) suture. Chamberlin noted ‘‘ also with a longitudinal furrow each side of the middle extending cephalad from the caudal region and uniting at an angle with its fellow near the middle of the plate from where they continue as a single median furrow to the transverse sulcus’ ’. These are not clear and their nature is doubtful. They may be bands of pigment. Trunk flattened (probably squashed) with longitudinal folding so it is not clear whether paramedian sulci are present or not. Only tergite 21 marginate. Sternites with complete paramedian sulci. Sternite 21 trapezoidal (Figure 17). Coxopleuron with short, digitate process bearing two minute spines (Figure 18) and with numerous small pores which may be in the underlying new cuticle. Legs 1 – 20 virtually glabrous, with divided tarsi and hooked pretarsus. The femora, tibiae, and tarsi 1 and 2 each with a small internal distal seta. Ultimate legs: one loose in tube with three nascent spines seen in profile on prefemur (Figure 19). Spiracles: only that of segment 3 visible. Viewed from the dorsal side this shows an upper and lower triangular flap (Figure 20). Specimen 2. Length 10 mm. This specimen lacks antennae and terminal legs. The trunk is round rather than dorsoventrally flattened. Small round spiracles are present on segments 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18, and 20. Remarks The small size, rounded trunk (seen in specimen 2), lack of sclerotization and only a few poorly developed spines and setae suggest that this is an early adolescens stage similar to that described by Lawrence (1947) for Cormocephalus multispinus (Kraepelin, 1903). The presence of coxosternal tooth plates, forcipular trochanteroprefemoral process, spined terminal leg prefemur, bisulcate sternites and divided tarsi, suggest that this is a scolopendrid rather than a cryptopid. The structure of the spiracle of segment 3 seen in specimen 1 is the same as that seen in the first free-living adolescens stadium of Scolopendra gigantea Linnaeus, 1758 (J. G. E. Lewis, unpublished data). Presumably the absence of ocelli in these specimens prompted Chamberlin to look for relationships within the Cryptopidae. However, in all probability this early stadium was yet to develop ocelli. Lawrence (1947) noted that the ocelli in the first adolescens stadium of the scolopendrid Cormocephalus mutltispinus are represented merely by four reddish orange pigment spots under the ‘‘ skin’ ’. No lenses could be distinguished. It is concluded that the two syntypes of Mimops occidentalis are an early adolescens stadium of a scolopendrid, too immature for the genus to be determined with certainty.	en	Lewis, John G. E. (2006): On the scolopendromorph centipede genus Mimops Kraepelin, 1903, with a description of a new family (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha). Journal of Natural History 40 (19 - 20): 1231-1239, DOI: 10.1080/00222930600861231, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930600861231
