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).