Genus of spiders
Modisimus genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[ 5]
Species
As of June 2019[update] Australia , on the Seychelles , and the Pacific Islands :[ 1]
M. angulatus Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. bachata Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. beneficus Gertsch , 1973M. berac Huber, 2010 – HispaniolaM. boneti Gertsch, 1971 – MexicoM. bribri Huber, 1998 – Costa Rica, PanamaM. cahuita Huber, 1998 – Costa RicaM. caldera Huber, 1998 – PanamaM. cavaticus Petrunkevitch , 1929M. chiapa Gertsch, 1977 – MexicoM. chickeringi Gertsch, 1973 – PanamaM. cienaga Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. coco Huber, 1998 – Costa RicaM. coeruleolineatus Petrunkevitch, 1929 – Puerto RicoM. concolor Bryant, 1940 – CubaM. cornutus Kraus, 1955 – HondurasM. coxanus (Bryant, 1940) – CubaM. cuadro Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. culicinus (Simon, 1893) – South America. Introduced to Germany, Czech Rep., Zaire, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, China, Australia, Pacific Is.M. david Huber, 1997 – Nicaragua, PanamaM. deltoroi Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2009 – MexicoM. dilutus Gertsch, 1941 – PanamaM. dominical Huber, 1998 – Costa RicaM. elevatus Bryant, 1940 – CubaM. elongatus Bryant, 1940 – CubaM. enriquillo Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. epepye Huber, 2010 – HispaniolaM. femoratus Bryant, 1948 – HispaniolaM. fuscus Bryant, 1948 – HispaniolaM. glaucus Simon, 1893 (type ) – Hispaniola, St. VincentM. globosus Schmidt , 1956M. gracilipes Gertsch, 1973 – GuatemalaM. guatuso Huber, 1998 – Nicaragua to PanamaM. guerrerensis Gertsch & Davis, 1937 – MexicoM. incertus (Bryant, 1940) – CubaM. inornatus O. Pickard-Cambridge , 1895M. iviei Gertsch, 1973 – MexicoM. ixobel Huber, 1998 – GuatemalaM. jima Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. kiskeya Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. leprete Huber, 2010 – HispaniolaM. macaya Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. maculatipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 – MexicoM. madreselva Huber, 1998 – Costa RicaM. makandal Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. mango Huber, 2010 – HispaniolaM. mariposas Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. mckenziei Gertsch, 1971 – MexicoM. minima (González-Sponga, 2009) – VenezuelaM. miri Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. mitchelli Gertsch, 1971 – MexicoM. modicus (Gertsch & Peck, 1992) – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)M. montanus Petrunkevitch, 1929 – Puerto Rico
M. nicaraguensis Huber, 1998 – NicaraguaM. ovatus Bryant, 1940 – CubaM. palenque Gertsch, 1977 – MexicoM. palvet Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. pana Huber, 1998 – GuatemalaM. paraiso Huber, 2010 – HispaniolaM. pavidus Bryant, 1940 – CubaM. pelejil Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. pittier Huber, 1998 – Costa Rica, PanamaM. propinquus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 – MexicoM. pulchellus Banks , 1929M. pusillus Gertsch, 1971 – MexicoM. rainesi Gertsch, 1971 – MexicoM. reddelli Gertsch, 1971 – MexicoM. roumaini Huber, 2010 – HispaniolaM. sanpedro Jiménez & Palacios-Cardiel, 2015 – MexicoM. sanvito Huber, 1998 – Costa RicaM. sarapiqui Huber, 1998 – Costa RicaM. seguin Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. selvanegra Huber, 1998 – NicaraguaM. sexoculatus Petrunkevitch, 1929 – Puerto RicoM. signatus (Banks, 1914) – Puerto RicoM. simoni Huber, 1997 – VenezuelaM. solus Gertsch & Peck, 1992 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)M. texanus Banks, 1906 – USA, MexicoM. tiburon Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. toma Huber & Fischer, 2010 – HispaniolaM. tortuguero Huber, 1998 – Costa RicaM. tzotzile Brignoli , 1974M. vittatus Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola
See also
References
^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Modisimus Simon, 1893" . World Spider Catalog Version 20.0 . Natural History Museum Bern. doi :10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-04 . ^ "Platnicknia nom. nov., a new name for the preoccupied spider genus Bryantina Brignoli, 1985 (Araneae: Pholcidae)" . researchgate.net . Retrieved 30 May 2021 .^ Huber, B. A. (1997). "On the distinction between Modisimus and Hedypsilus (Araneae, Pholcidae), with notes on behavior and natural history". Zoologica Scripta . 25 (3): 238. doi :10.1111/j.1463-6409.1996.tb00164.x . S2CID 85130839 . ^ Huber, B. A.; Eberle, J.; Dimitrov, D. (2018). "The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae)" . ZooKeys (789): 99. doi :10.3897/zookeys.789.22781 PMC 6193417 PMID 30344435 . ^ Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées 257– 488. doi :10.5962/bhl.title.51973 .
