Modunda staintoni, : Logunov, 2001

Wesolowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2009, Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa, African Invertebrates 50 (1), pp. 13-103 : 58

Modunda staintoni (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872)

Salticus staintoni : O. P.-Cambridge 1872: 331, pl. 14, fig. 20.

Salticus congener : O. P.-Cambridge 1872: 332.

Modunda phragmitis: Simon 1901 b: 160 , figs 63, 64.

Modunda staintoni: Logunov 2001: 277 , figs 347–366; Prószyński 2003: 98, figs 112, 115, 116, 119, 122– 132; Wesolowska & van Harten 2007: 229, figs 118–123; Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz 2008: 26, figs 102–106.

See Wesolowska & van Harten (2007) for description of both sexes.

Material examined: 1^Crocodile Farm, Pongola River Floodplain , 26 ° 54.426'S: 32 ° 19.185'E, A. xanthophloea bark, 6.ii.2005 (NCA 2008/622).

Distribution: Species known from Afghanistan and Punjab in India, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula and southern Ethiopia. This is the first record from South Africa, far from the hitherto known species range. This species may have been introduced to the ports of Richards Bay or Durban in KwaZulu-Natal by shipping, and dispersed from there. Alternately, this specimen may represent a new species closely related to M. staintoni .

Habitat and distribution: Only known from a single specimen collected from fever tree bark.