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Genus: Mimetus Hentz, 1832 | Family: Mimetidae Simon, 1881

Mimetus sinicus Song & Zhu, 1993

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005780

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Described:

Distribution: China

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Holotype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China f - (Song & Zhu, 1993)
Allotype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China m - (Song & Zhu, 1993)
Paratype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China 4f - (Song & Zhu, 1993)

Taxonomic References

Mimetus sinicus Song & Zhu, 1993: 421, f. 1-5 (Dmf) Original description

Mimetus sinicus Song & Li, 1997: 400, f. 1A-E (mf)

Mimetus sinicus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 74, f. 11K, 30H-I, S-T (mf)

Mimetus sinicus Zhang et al., 2025c: 722, f. 9A-E, 10A-F, 11A-C, 14C-D (mf)

References

Song, D. X. & Zhu, M. S. (1993). A new species of the genus Mimetus from China (Araneae: Mimetidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 18: 421-423. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X. & Li, S. Q. (1997). Spiders of Wuling Mountains area. In: Song, D. X. (ed.) Invertebrates of Wuling Mountains Area, Southwestern China. Science Press, Beijing, pp. 400-448. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. S., Zhang, H. S., Liu, J. X., Yu, H. & Xu, X. (2025c). A survey of mimetid spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae) from Central Guizhou Province, China. Zoosystematics and Evolution 101(2): 711-734. doi: 10.3897/zse.101.146895 -- Show included taxa

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-03-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang et al., 2025c