Modisimus miri Huber & Fischer & Astrin 2010, SP. NOV.
Creators: name: Huber, Bernhard A.
name: Fischer, Nadine
name: Astrin, Jonas J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Pholcidae
Modisimus
Modisimus miri

description: MODISIMUS MIRI HUBER & FISCHER SP. NOV.   
(Figs 61, 82, 190, 191, 201)  
 Type: Male holotype from Reserva Científica Loma Quita Espuela, near summit (19°21.5 ′ N, 70°09 ′ W), Duarte Prov., Dominican Republic; 900 m a.s.l., underside of manacla (palm) leaves, 10 November 2005 (B.A. Huber), in ZFMK (DR 23 a).   
 Etymology: The species name honours the Dominican poet and writer Pedro Julio Mir Valentín (1913– 2000).   
 Diagnosis: Medium-sized, pale-greenish, long-legged species, with six eyes, distinguished from close relatives (M. palvet sp. nov. and M. berac sp. nov.) by epigynum shape (Fig. 61) and pair of apophyses above fang joints (Fig. 190); further distinguished from M. palvet sp. nov. by pattern of club-shaped modified hairs on male chelicerae (Fig. 190) and slightly wider procursus.   
 Male (holotype): Total length, 1.9; carapace width, 0.80. Leg 1: 24.0 (5.8 + 0.3 + 5.8 + 9.8 + 2.3); tibia 2, 4.0; tibia 3, 2.8; tibia 4, 3.1. Tibia 1 L/d: 72. Habitus similar to M. palvet sp. nov. (cf. Fig. 35), carapace pale ochre-yellow to whitish, clypeus with wide brown distal margin, sternum whitish; legs pale ochre-yellow, with darker patella area and tibia–metatarsus joints; abdomen pale greenish grey with purplish marks dorsally at heart area, monochromous ventrally. Ocular area slightly elevated; thoracic furrow distinct but shallow. PME–PME, 95 Mm; PME diameter, 70 Mm; PME–ALE, 80 Mm; no AME. Sternum slightly wider than long (0.60/0.55), unmodified. Chelicerae with about ten club-shaped modified hairs on each side, and distinctive apophyses above fang joints (Fig. 190). Palps very similar to M. palvet sp. nov. (cf. Fig. 185), procursus slightly wider, and bulbal apophysis slightly wider and shorter. Long spines on femora 1 (three or four) and femora 2 (two), many short vertical hairs on all femora; without curved hairs; retrolateral trichobothrium on tibia 1 at 7%; prolateral trichobothrium missing on tibia 1, present on all other tibiae; tarsus 1 with ~30 pseudosegments.   
 Variation: Other male with entire clypeus and anterior side of ocular area brown. Tibia 1: 5.4.   
 Female: In general similar to male, without darkened clypeus. Tibia 1: 4.2. Epigynum, simple externally (Fig. 61); dorsal view as in Figures 82, 191.   
 Distribution: Known from type locality only (Fig. 201).   
 Material examined: Dominican Republic: Duarte Prov., Reserva Científica Loma Quita Espuela, 1♂, holotype above; same data, 1♂, 1♀ and one juvenile   
(ZFMK, DR 23); same data, one juvenile, in pure ethanol (ZFMK, DR 100-24).
description: Published as part of Huber, Bernhard A., Fischer, Nadine & Astrin, Jonas J., 2010, High level of endemism in Haiti's last remaining forests: a revision of Modisimus (Araneae: Pholcidae) on Hispaniola, using morphology and molecules, pp. 244-299 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158 (2) on pages 289-291, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00559.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5438272