''Modisimus'' is a
genus
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of
cellar spiders that was first described by
Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.
Description
Spiders of the genus ''Modisimus'' have six eyes, unlike the eight typical of spiders. While some other pholcid genera also have six eyes, ''Modisimus'' differs from them in the prosoma having a median furrow and the eyes being situated on a turret (this turret is very high in males).
Species
it contains eighty-three species and one subspecies, found in Central America, Europe, Asia, North America, the Caribbean, South America,
Australia
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, on the
Seychelles
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, and the
Pacific Islands
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:
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M. angulatus''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. bachata''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. beneficus''
Gertsch, 1973 – Mexico
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M. berac''
Huber, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. boneti''
Gertsch, 1971 – Mexico
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M. bribri''
Huber, 1998 – Costa Rica, Panama
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M. cahuita''
Huber, 1998 – Costa Rica
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M. caldera''
Huber, 1998 – Panama
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M. cavaticus''
Petrunkevitch, 1929 – Puerto Rico
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M. chiapa''
Gertsch, 1977 – Mexico
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M. chickeringi''
Gertsch, 1973 – Panama
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M. cienaga''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. coco''
Huber, 1998 – Costa Rica
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M. coeruleolineatus''
Petrunkevitch, 1929 – Puerto Rico
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M. concolor''
Bryant, 1940 – Cuba
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M. cornutus''
Kraus, 1955 – Honduras
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M. coxanus''
(Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
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M. cuadro''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. culicinus''
(Simon, 1893) – South America. Introduced to Germany, Czech Rep., Zaire, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, China, Australia, Pacific Is.
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M. david''
Huber, 1997 – Nicaragua, Panama
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M. deltoroi''
Valdez-Mondragón & Francke, 2009 – Mexico
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M. dilutus''
Gertsch, 1941 – Panama
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M. dominical''
Huber, 1998 – Costa Rica
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M. elevatus''
Bryant, 1940 – Cuba
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M. elongatus''
Bryant, 1940 – Cuba
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M. enriquillo''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. epepye''
Huber, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. femoratus''
Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola
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M. fuscus''
Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola
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M. glaucus''
Simon, 1893 (
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) – Hispaniola, St. Vincent
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M. globosus''
Schmidt
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, 1956 – Colombia
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M. gracilipes''
Gertsch, 1973 – Guatemala
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M. guatuso''
Huber, 1998 – Nicaragua to Panama
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M. guerrerensis''
Gertsch & Davis, 1937 – Mexico
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M. incertus''
(Bryant, 1940) – Cuba
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M. inornatus''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 – Mexico
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M. iviei''
Gertsch, 1973 – Mexico
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M. ixobel''
Huber, 1998 – Guatemala
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M. jima''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. kiskeya''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. leprete''
Huber, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. macaya''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. maculatipes''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 – Mexico
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M. madreselva''
Huber, 1998 – Costa Rica
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M. makandal''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. mango''
Huber, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. mariposas''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. mckenziei''
Gertsch, 1971 – Mexico
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M. minima''
(González-Sponga, 2009) – Venezuela
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M. miri''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. mitchelli''
Gertsch, 1971 – Mexico
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M. modicus''
(Gertsch & Peck, 1992) – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
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M. montanus''
Petrunkevitch, 1929 – Puerto Rico
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Modisimus m. dentatus''
Petrunkevitch, 1929 – Puerto Rico
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M. nicaraguensis''
Huber, 1998 – Nicaragua
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M. ovatus''
Bryant, 1940 – Cuba
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M. palenque''
Gertsch, 1977 – Mexico
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M. palvet''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. pana''
Huber, 1998 – Guatemala
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M. paraiso''
Huber, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. pavidus''
Bryant, 1940 – Cuba
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M. pelejil''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. pittier''
Huber, 1998 – Costa Rica, Panama
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M. propinquus''
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 – Mexico
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M. pulchellus''
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, 1929 – Panama
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M. pusillus''
Gertsch, 1971 – Mexico
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M. rainesi''
Gertsch, 1971 – Mexico
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M. reddelli''
Gertsch, 1971 – Mexico
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M. roumaini''
Huber, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. sanpedro''
Jiménez & Palacios-Cardiel, 2015 – Mexico
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M. sanvito''
Huber, 1998 – Costa Rica
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M. sarapiqui''
Huber, 1998 – Costa Rica
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M. seguin''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. selvanegra''
Huber, 1998 – Nicaragua
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M. sexoculatus''
Petrunkevitch, 1929 – Puerto Rico
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M. signatus''
(Banks, 1914) – Puerto Rico
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M. simoni''
Huber, 1997 – Venezuela
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M. solus''
Gertsch & Peck, 1992 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
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M. texanus''
Banks, 1906 – USA, Mexico
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M. tiburon''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. toma''
Huber & Fischer, 2010 – Hispaniola
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M. tortuguero''
Huber, 1998 – Costa Rica
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M. tzotzile''
Brignoli, 1974 – Mexico
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M. vittatus''
Bryant, 1948 – Hispaniola
See also
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List of Pholcidae species
This page lists all described genera and species
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References
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Araneomorphae genera
Pantropical spiders
Pholcidae
Spiders of North America
Spiders of South America