Mimops orientalis Kraepelin, 1903:62
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: August 1903 (Jiang et al., 2020)
Rediscovered on: 14 July 2019 (Jiang et al., 2020)
Distribution & Habitat
Shaanxi Province, China
Type locality: Shaanxi (Schensi) Province (Bonato et al., 2016)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Kraepelin K. (1903a). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten (2) 20: 1-276.
Other references:
Attems, C. (1930). Myriopoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin 54: 1-308.
Benavides, Ligia R., Jiang, Chao and Giribet, Gonzalo. (2021). Mimopidae is the sister group to all other scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha): a phylotranscriptomic approach. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 21: 591-598. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-021-00502-2
Bonato, L., Chagas Junior, A., Edgecombe, G. D., Lewis, J. G. E., Minelli, A., Pereira, L. A., Shelley, R. M., Stoev, P. and Zapparoli, M. (2016). ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Available at: https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.
Jiang, Chao et al. (2020). Rediscovery and phylogenetic relationships of the scolopendromorph centipede Mimops orientalis Kraepelin, 1903 (Chilopoda): a monotypic species of Mimopidae endemic to China, for more than one century. ZooKeys 932: 75-91. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.932.51461
Kraepelin, K. (1903b). Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Narturhistorischen Museum, Hamburg. 62 pp.
Lewis, J. G. (2006). On the scolopendromorph centipede genus Mimops Kraepelin, with a description of a new family (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha). Journal of Natural History 40(19-20): 1231-1239. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930600861231
Thofern, Detlef et al. (2021). An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Zootaxa 4977(1): 1-103. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1