Harmochirus luculentus Simon, 1886

Identification. Logunov (2001: figs 206-246); Wesołowska and van Harten (2007: figs 68-75, pl. 11-12).

Material. IVORY COAST: 2♁ 1♀ (BMNH), Bouaké, West African Rice Development Association, upland rice field (pitfall traps), 6.09.1994, ARS. – NIGE- RIA: 1♁ 3♀ (BMNH), Ibadan, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, forest stream, swept grassland, 6.07- 17.08.1974, ARS . – BOTSWANA: 1♁ 1♀ (BMNH), nr. Maun, Maphaneng Pan, tall grass in riverine woodland, 5.12.1976, ARS ; 1♁ (BMNH), same locality, grazed Setaria grassland, 22.08.1978, ARS ; 1♀ (BMNH), nr. Maun, Island Safari Lodge, riverine woodland, 21.09.1975, ARS ; 1♁ (BMNH), Maun, R. Thamalakane, grassland, 1.02.1977, ARS ; 1♀ (BMNH), same locality and habitat, 3.03.1976, ARS; 4♀ (BMNH), same locality, grazed Setaria grassland, 24.07.1977, ARS ; 1♀ (BMNH), same locality, on fig tree, riverine woodland, 03.1976, ARS; 1♁ (BMNH), nr. Maun, Maphaneng Pan, in short grassland (hand collecting), 24.02.1976, ARS ; 1♀ (BMNH), same locality, grass tufts in riverine woodland, 26.03.1976, ARS; 1♀ (BMNH), nr. Maun, Okavango, Mankunyane lagoon, grassland (sweeping), 8.01.1977, ARS ; 2♁ (BMNH), Okavango, Shaile Camp, in riverine woodland, 28.03.1976, ARS ; 1♀ (BMNH), Okavango, Moremi G.R., Mboma lagoon, in Hyparrhenia grassland, 13.08.1977, ARS ; 1♀ (BMNH), same lo- cality, swept floodplain grassland, 14.01.1976, ARS; 1♁ 3♀ (BMNH), Okavango, R. Shashe, in floodplain grassland (hand collecting), 31.08.1975, ARS ; 1♁ 1♀ (BMNH), Maun, Okavango, in garden (house 36), 5.06.1976, ARS ; 1♀ (BMNH), Okavango, Moremi Reserve, swept tall grassland by lagoon, 19.05.1976, ARS. – SOUTH AF- RICA: 2♀ (BMNH), Cape Peninsula, Buffels Bay, in sand dunes (hand collecting), 12.08.1978, ARS .

Comments. This is a common African species, distributed from South Africa (Logunov 2001, present data) to the Arabian Peninsula (Wesołowska and van Harten 2007).