The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/30877
Modysticus modestus (Scheffer, 1904)
FAMILY: THOMISIDAE Sundevall, 1833
Genus: Modysticus Gertsch, 1953
Species: Modysticus modestus (Scheffer, 1904)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
crab spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
ambushers
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Synonyms and Chresonyms† Taxonomic References†
Banks, N. 1910. Catalogue of Nearctic spiders. Bull. U. S. nat. Mus. 72: 1-80. †Nomenclature and taxonomic references
from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/THOMISIDAE.html Other Nearctic Members of Genus Modysticus Gertsch, 1953‡‡
M. floridanus (Banks, 1895) ...............USA ‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution
‡Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Recorded Habitats:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image(s) of Habitus:
(images not yet available)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Modysticus modestus Scheffer 1904
Ozyptila modesta Scheffer 1904
Xysticus modestus Scheffer 1904
Ozyptila modesta Banks 1910
Ozyptila marshalli Barrows 1919
Ozyptila marshalli Bryant 1930
Ozyptila modesta Gertsch 1939
Ozyptila modesta Gertsch 1953
Ozyptila modesta Levi & Field 1954
Ozyptila modesta Dondale & Redner 1975
Modysticus modestus Marusik, Lehtinen & Koyblyuk 2005
Barrows, W. M. 1919. New spiders from Ohio. Ohio Jour. Sci. 19: 355-360.
Bryant, E. B. 1930. A revision of the American species of the genus Ozyptila. Psyche 37: 373-391.
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1975. The genus Ozyptila in North America (Araneida, Thomisidae). J. Arachnol. 2: 129-181.
Gertsch, W. J. 1953. The spider genera Xysticus, Coriarachne and Oxyptila (Thomisidae, Misumeninae) in North America. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 102: 415-482.
Gertsch, W. J. 1939. A revision of the typical crab spiders (Misumeninae) of America north of Mexico. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 76: 277-442.
Levi, H. W. & H. M. Field. 1954. The spiders of Wisconsin. Am. Midl. Nat. 51: 440-467.
Marusik, Y. M., P. T. Lehtinen & M. M. Kovblyuk. 2005. Cozyptila, a new genus of crab spiders (Aranei: Thomisidae: Thomisinae: Coriarachnini) from the western Palaearctic. Arthropoda Selecta 13: 151-163.
Scheffer, T. H. 1904. Four new spiders from Kansas. Ent. News 15: 257-260.
Strand, E. 1916. Systematische-faunistiche Studien über paläarktische, afrikanische und amerikanische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Arch. Naturg. 81(A9): 1-153.
M. okefinokensis (Gertsch, 1934) ...............USA