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Species Modysticus floridanus

M. floridanus - dorsal - Modysticus floridanus - female

M. floridanus - posterior dorsal - Modysticus floridanus - female

M. floridanus - front - Modysticus floridanus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Thomisidae (Crab Spiders)

Genus Modysticus

Species floridanus (Modysticus floridanus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Previously Ozyptila floridana

Explanation of Names

Banks, 1895

Size

Female: ~3mm

Male: ~2.5(1)

Range

Southeastern United States. FL, SC, TN.(1)

Works Cited

1.	The genus Ozyptila in North America (Araneida, Thomisidae) C.D. Dondale & J.H. Redner. 1975. Journal of Arachnology 2(3): 129-181.

Contributed by Laura P. on 19 April, 2015 - 6:29pm

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