ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
Bonato L., Chagas Junior A.,
Edgecombe G.D. Lewis J.G.E.,
Minelli A., Pereira L.A.,
Shelley R.M., Stoev P.,
Zapparoli M. (2016)
ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue
of Centipedes (Chilopoda).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

Mimops occidentalis Chamberlin, 1914

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1914). The Stanford Expedition to Brazil 1911 John C. Branner Director. The Chilopoda of Brazil - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 58: 151-221, see p. 160.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Mimopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Mimops Kraepelin, 1903

Type locality: Rio de Janeiro

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Lewis J.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: 1231 – 1239, see p. 248.

Notes: The two syntypes of M. occidentalis are an early adolescens stadium of a scolopendrid, too immature for the genus to be determined with certainty.