Modisimus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.[5]

Modisimus
Temporal range: Neogene– Present
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Modisimus
Simon, 1893[1]
Type species
M. glaucus
Simon, 1893
Species

83, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Bryantina Brignoli, 1985[2]
  • Hedypsilus Simon, 1893[3]
  • Platnicknia Özdikmen & Demir, 2009[4]

Species

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As of June 2019 it contains eighty-three species and one subspecies, found in Central America, Europe, Asia, North America, the Caribbean, South America, Australia, on the Seychelles, and the Pacific Islands:[1]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Platnicknia nom. nov., a new name for the preoccupied spider genus Bryantina Brignoli, 1985 (Araneae: Pholcidae)". researchgate.net. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Simon, E. (1893). Histoire naturelle das araignées. pp. 257–488. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.