Modisimus chiapanecus García-Villafuerte and Valdez-Mondragón 2020 (daddy long-legs spider)

Arachnida - Araneae - Pholcidae

Full reference: M. Á García-Villafuerte and A. Valdez-Mondragón. 2020. The oldest fossils of the spider subfamily Modisiminae from the Americas: Description of a new species of the genus Modisimus Simon (Araneae: Pholcidae) from the amber of Mexico with a checklist of the extant Mexican species. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 103(102702)

Belongs to Modisimus according to M. Á. García-Villafuerte and A. Valdez-Mondragón 2020

Sister taxa: Modisimus calcar, Modisimus calcaroides, Modisimus crassifemoralis, Modisimus oculatus, Modisimus tuberosus

Type specimen: IHNFG-5890, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Mexican amber, Los Cocos mine (IHNFG collection), which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in Mexico.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Mexican amber, Los Cocos mine (IHNFG collection)

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