Modisimus Simon, 1893

Bernhard A. Huber & Charles M. Warui, 2012, East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 29 (29), pp. 1-44 : 9

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scientific name	Modisimus Simon, 1893
status

Treatment

Modisimus is a New World genus; only the synanthropic M. culicinus (Simon, 1893) has a pantropical distribution. This tiny species is probably not rare, but it has previously been recorded only once from Africa (Congo DR; Lawrence 1938; sub Hedypsilus lawrencei ). It is here newly recorded for East Africa ( Fig. 20 View Figs 20 - 23 ).

References

Lawrence R. F. 1938. A collection of spiders from Natal and Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 8 (3): 455 - 524.

Figures

Figs 20 - 23. Known distributions of the genera Modisimus, Pehrforsskalia, Micropholcus, Spermophorides, Leptopholcus, and Pholcus in East Africa. For detailed maps of Leptopholcus and Pholcus, see Huber (2011). Squares: unidentified / undescribed specimens.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Araneae
Family	Pholcidae

Specimens