Modunda staintoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Logunov, Dmitri, 2009, Further notes on the Harmochireae of Africa (Araneae, Salticidae, Pelleninae), ZooKeys 16 (16), pp. 265-290 : 281

Modunda staintoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Identification. Logunov (2001: figs 347-366); Wesołowska and van Harten (2007: figs 118-123, pl. 20-21); Wesołowska and Tomasiewicz (2008: figs 102-106).

Material examined. BOTSWANA: 2♁ 2♀ ( BMNH), Maun , R. Thamalakane, grassland (on ground layer), 3.03.1976, ARS ; 1♁ ( BMNH), same locality, swept Setaria grassland, 2.01.1977, ARS ; 1♀ ( BMNH), same locality and habitat, 24.07.1977, ARS ; 3♀ ( BMNH), same locality, in grass tufts, 2- 17.03.1976, ARS ; 2♁ ( BMNH), same locality, in Vossia swamp, 26.02.1976, F. Wanless & ARS ; 2♀ ( BMNH), Okavango , Moremi South Gate, grassland, 14.03.1977, ARS ; 1♀ ( BMNH), Okavango , Moremi Game Reserve, Mboma lagoon, in Hyparrhenia grassland, 30.06.1977, ARS .

Comments. This is a rather common species distributed from Botswana (present data), north-eastward throughout Ethiopia, the Arabian Peninsula ( Wesołowska and van Harten 2007; Wesołowska and Tomasiewicz 2008) and the Near East ( Prószyński 2003), to Afghanistan and Punjab in NW India ( Logunov 2001).