Sonoita lightfooti Peckham & Peckham, 1903

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 : 81

Sonoita lightfooti Peckham & Peckham, 1903

Sonoita lightfooti: Peckham & Peckham 1903: 184 , pl. 19, fig. 4; Wanless 1985: 267, figs 11a–l, 13a, b, 4a, b, 16f; Wesolowska & Cumming 2008: 212, figs 157–163; Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz 2008: 48, figs 189–194, 213, 214.

See Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz (2008) for description of male, and Wesolowska & Cumming (2008) for description of female.

Material examined: 2^Crocodile Farm, 26 ° 54.426'S: 32 ° 19.185'E, broadleaf woodland, beats, short bushes, 2.xii.2000 ( NMBA 11604 ); 3ơ 1^Eastern shore of Shokwe Pan, 26 ° 52.516'S: 32 ° 12.407'E, beats, trees, 24.i.2006, R . Lyle ( NCA 2008 /2755); 1ơ Red Cliffs, Usutu R ., 26 ° 51.164'S: 32 ° 12.365'E, semiaquatic vegetation, 4.xii.2000 ( NCA 2008 /2756) .

Distribution: Poorly known; species reported from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast and Ethiopia.

Habitat and biology: This species was occasionally collected by beating foliage in dense thickets (ST) and wetland habitats (FP and RF).