Shokupanus mihashii

“Mihashi’s Japanese sandwich bread”
Kingdom
Microsynthera
Phylum
Plasticae
Class
Occlupanida
Order
Orthogonidectes
Family
Angulognathidae
Genus
Shokupanus
Species
mihashii
External morphology

Lateral palps. Size 22 mm X 26 mm

Shokupan is the Japanese name for sandwich bread. For decades, the entire order Angulognatha was described from this one species brought back from Japan in 2001 by visual effects artist T. Mihashi, where he found it on a bag of  Japanese bread rolls. Never seen before or since, this exotic and extremely rare occlupanid species is truly in a taxon of its own.