Survey of the genus Modunda

Modunda aeneiceps (♀) (SIMON, 1901)

combinations

Modunda aeniceps (♀) SIMON, 1901: 161
Bianor aeniceps: PRÓSZYŃSKI 1987: 9
Modunda aeniceps: LOGUNOV 2000: 276

distribution

China, Sri Lanka

illustrations


Fig.: D-9404
Modunda aeneiceps - ♀ - epigyne, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9405
Modunda aeneiceps - ♀ - spermathecae, dorsal view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9406
Modunda aeneiceps - ♀ - spermathecae, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9407
Modunda aeneiceps - ♀ - receptacles, dorsal and ventral views- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9408
Modunda aeneiceps - ♀ - insemination duct, dorsal view- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9409
Modunda aeneiceps - ♀ - chelicera. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)


Fig.: D-9410
Modunda aeneiceps - ♀ - general appearance. Scale bar: 0.25 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9411
Modunda aeneiceps - ♀ - carapace, lateral view. Scale bar: 0.25 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-37456
Bianor aeneiceps - ♀ - body. Scale: 1.0 mm- © PENG, X. J., XIE, L. P., XIAO, Q. X. & YIN, C. M. (1993)

Fig.: D-37457
Bianor aeneiceps - ♀ - vulva dorsal. Scale: 0.1 mm- © PENG, X. J., XIE, L. P., XIAO, Q. X. & YIN, C. M. (1993)

Fig.: D-37458
Bianor aeneiceps - ♀ - vulva ventral. Scale: 0.1 mm- © PENG, X. J., XIE, L. P., XIAO, Q. X. & YIN, C. M. (1993)

Fig.: D-2481
Modunda aeniceps - ♀ - Kandy! Colombo! - © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)


Fig.: D-2482
Modunda aeniceps - ♀ - Kandy! Colombo! - © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)

Fig.: D-2483
Modunda aeniceps - ♀ - Kandy! Colombo! - © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)



references

KALDARI, R. (2010)

Reassignment of the Indian species of Zygoballus to Bianor and Rhene (Araneae: Salticidae). , Simpsonville. 82.1: 1-4.
LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

A redefinition of the genera Bianor PECKHAM & PECKHAM, 1885 and Harmochirus SIMON, 1885, with the establishment of a new genus Sibianor gen.n. (Aranei: Salticidae). Moscow, Moscow. 9 4: 221-286.
LOGUNOV, D. V. (2009)

Further notes on the Harmochireae of Africa (Araneae, Salticidae, Pelleninae). 16: 265-290.
PENG, X. J. (2020)

Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing 612 pp.
PENG, X. J., XIE, L. P., XIAO, Q. X. & YIN, C. M. (1993)

Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae). Hunan Normal University Press 270 pp..
PLATNICK, N. I. (1989)

Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1981-1987. A supplement to Brignoli´s "A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981". Manchester University Press 673 pp.
PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1971)

Catalogue of Salticidae (Aranei) specimens kept in major collections of the world. , Warszawa. 28 17: 367-519.
PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)

Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej SiedlcachWSRP 1-172.
PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)

Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej SiedlcachWSRP 1-172.
PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1990)

Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae): Synthesis of Quotations in the World Literature since 1940, with Basic Taxonomic Data since 1758. Siedlce 366 pp.
ROEWER, C. Fr. (1954)

Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940 2. Band (Salticiformia, Cribellata). Inst.Roy.Sc.Nat.Bel. 975-1279.
SILIWAL, M. & MOLUR, S. (2007)

Checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of South Asia including the 2006 update of Indian spider checklist. 22 2: 2551-2597.
SIMON, E. (1901)

Histoire naturelle des Araignees. Deuxieme edition. Paris (Roret) 2 3: 381-668.
SIMON, E. (1901)

Descriptions d´Arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 45: 141-161.
SONG, D. X., XIE, L. P., ZHU, M. S. & WU, K. Y. (1997)

Notes on some jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Hong Kong. 16 4: 149-152.
SONG, D. X., ZHU, M. S. & CHEN, J. (1999)

The Spiders of China. Hebei Sci. Technol. Publ. House, Shijiazhuang 640 pp.
SONG, D. X., ZHU, M. S. & CHEN, J. (2001)

The Fauna of Hebei, China: Araneae. Hebei Science Technol. Publ. House 510 pp.
YIN, C. M., PENG, X. J., YAN, H. M., BAO, Y. H., XU, X., TANG, G., ZHOU, Q. S. & LIU, P. (2012)

Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha 1590 pp.


Modunda orientalis (♀) DÖNITZ & STRAND, 1906

combinations

Modunda orientalis (♀) DÖNITZ & STRAND, 1906: 396
Menemerus orientis: YAGINUMA 1986: 221
Bianor orientalis: ONO & OGATA 2018: 640

distribution

Japan

illustrations


Fig.: D-31174
Modunda orientalis - ♀- © BÖSENBERG, W. & STRAND, E. (1906)



references

BÖSENBERG, W. & STRAND, E. (1906)

Japanische Spinnen. Abh. Senck. Naturf. Ges. 30: 93-422 Taf. 3-16 .
LOGUNOV, D. V. (2009)

Further notes on the Harmochireae of Africa (Araneae, Salticidae, Pelleninae). 16: 265-290.
ONO, H. & OGATA, K. (2018)

Spiders of Japan: Their Natural History and Diversity. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa 713 pp.
PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1990)

Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae): Synthesis of Quotations in the World Literature since 1940, with Basic Taxonomic Data since 1758. Siedlce 366 pp.
ROEWER, C. Fr. (1954)

Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940 2. Band (Salticiformia, Cribellata). Inst.Roy.Sc.Nat.Bel. 975-1279.
YAGINUMA, T. (1962)

The spider fauna of Japan. Arachnol. Soc. East Asia Osaka 74 pp.
YAGINUMA, T. (1970)

The spider fauna of Japan (revised in 1970). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 13: 639-701.
YAGINUMA, T. (1986)

Spiders of Japan in color -New Edition-. Hoikusha Publ. Co., Osaka.


Modunda staintoni (♂,♀) (O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, 1872)

combinations

Salticus staintonii (♂) O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, 1872: 331
Hyctia staintoni: SIMON 1876: 22
Bianor staintoni: (♂,♀) PRÓSZYŃSKI 1990: 72
Modunda staintoni: LOGUNOV 2000: 277

synonyms

Modunda phragmitis (♂,♀) SIMON, 1901 [PROSZYNSKI, 1990: 223 (sub Bianor]
Modunda congener (♀) O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, 1872 [PROSZYNSKI, 1990: 223 (sub Bianor]

description male

Cephalothorax black, surface of eye field pitted, white setae below lateral eyes, a few whitish scales in the foveal area. O. Pickard-Cambridge (1872: 331–332) describes it as follows: ... deep rich brown on the sides with a black margin, the caput is black and encircled by a band of white hairs running round in front immediately beneath the eyes and ending beneath on either side behind the eyes of the hinder row; at the centre of the back of the caput is a white spot ..... Abdomen elongate oval, flattened, covered with brown scutum (almost not visible on O. Pickard-Cambridge’s specimen, abdomen discoloured) with traces of pairs of marginal white spots anteriorly and at the 3/4 length, also single median spot. According to the original description ... dark brown tingled with yellow, its fore half is encircled with a marginal band or stripe of white hairs; and there are six small bright white spots (also formed by white hairs) on its upper surface: two of these spots are placed longitudinally on the centre of its fore half, the foremost of these spots is sometimes obsolete, the other four are on the margins of the hinder half and form a huge trapezoid ... the underside is paler than the upper side, and has an indistinct marginal line of white hairs on either side.
Frontal aspect: integument blackish brown covered with white setae, long white setae overhanging cheliceral bases; eyes I surrounded ventrally with white setae, light fawn dorsally. Transversal section of chelicerae triangular with peculiar huge fang and huge prolateral tooth, with an irregular cavity between fang and cheliceral edge. Pedipalps short, brown with cymbium fawn.
Legs I robust, dark brown, distinctly different from II–IV which are shorter, slender and light yellow; relation of length of legs in decreasing order I – 100%, IV – 81% , III – 63%, II – 54%; leg I (5 segments only) being 248% of length of cephalothorax (additionally trochanter and coxa I are unusually elongated); striking differences in width: tibia and femur I about twice as wide as tibia and femur of either II, III or IV.
Measurements (mm). Male. Length of cephalothorax 1.70; length of abdomen 2.50; length of 5 segments of leg I 5.14. leg length order I, IV, III, II. © PRÓSZYŃSKI 2003

description female

Resembles male very much, but integument of abdomen soft, without scutum, with greyish mottled darker linear pattern. Cephalothorax like male ... dark brown uniformly clothed with short greyish white hairs .. Frontal aspect like male but chelicerae slender, yellowish brown, fang slender.
Abdomen with ... a series of angular lines or chevrons (of which the first is much stronger and more pointed than the rest) are indistinctly visible on the hinder half of the upper side, and also some pale blotches corresponding to the white spots in male .... Legs I robust, like male. Epigynum resembling Bianor.
Measurements (mm). Female. Length of cephalothorax 1.93; length of abdomen 2.96. © PRÓSZYŃSKI 2003

comments

Diagnosis. General outlook of body resembling Pseudicius, but differs by spination on swollen tibia I and lack of stridulatory bristles beneath eyes lateral, also angular location of eyes III. Genital organs resembling Bianor. © PRÓSZYŃSKI 2003

collected material

Egypt
, 1 ♀ leg.: Peckham Coll., det.: Dmitri V. Logunov, (MCZ-IZ:33392), publ. online: SCAN. 2019. Accessed on May 2019, publ. offline:  :

India
Patiala City, University campus, 24.6.1999, (SMF- 57534-141 ), publ. online: GBIF.org (07 May 2019) GBIF Occurrence Download, publ. offline:  :
Patiala City, University campus, (SMF- 57533-141 ), publ. online: GBIF.org (07 May 2019) GBIF Occurrence Download, publ. offline:  :

distribution

Afghanistan, Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Israel, Pakistan, Palestine, South Africa, Yemen

illustrations


Fig.: D-23999
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - general appearance, dorsal view- © WESOŁOWSKA, W. & TOMASIEWICZ, B. (2008)

Fig.: D-24000
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - cheliceral dentition- © WESOŁOWSKA, W. & TOMASIEWICZ, B. (2008)

Fig.: D-24001
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - first leg- © WESOŁOWSKA, W. & TOMASIEWICZ, B. (2008)

Fig.: D-24002
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - palpal organ, ventral view- © WESOŁOWSKA, W. & TOMASIEWICZ, B. (2008)

Fig.: D-24003
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - palpal organ, lateral view- © WESOŁOWSKA, W. & TOMASIEWICZ, B. (2008)

Fig.: D-962
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - General appearance- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (2003)


Fig.: D-963
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - palpal organ ventrally- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (2003)

Fig.: D-964
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - palpal tibia laterally- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (2003)

Fig.: D-965
Modunda staintoni - ♀ - epigynum- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (2003)

Fig.: D-966
Modunda staintoni - ♀ - Internal structure of epigynum- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (2003)

Fig.: D-9412
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - Jalalabad - palp, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9413
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - Jalalabad - palp, retrolateral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)


Fig.: D-9414
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - Jalalabad - leg I, lateral view. Scale bar: 0.25 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9415
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - Jalalabad - chelicera. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9416
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - Jalalabad - carapace, lateral view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9417
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - Jalalabad - general appearance. Scale bar: 0.5 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9419
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - ventral scutum of abdomen. Scale bar: 0.5 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9420
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - palp, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)


Fig.: D-9421
Modunda staintoni - ♀ - chelicera. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9422
Modunda staintoni - ♀ - epigyne, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9423
Modunda staintoni - ♀ - spermathecae, dorsal view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-9424
Modunda staintoni - ♀ - spermathecae, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

Fig.: D-15254
Salticus staintonii - ♂ - natural length of spider, caput and eyes- © PICKARD - CAMBRIDGE, O. (1872)

Fig.: D-15255
Salticus staintonii - ♂ - palpus, leg of first pair- © PICKARD - CAMBRIDGE, O. (1872)


SYNONYM
Fig.: D-9418
Modunda phragmitis - ♂ - Suez - palp, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-9425
Modunda phragmitis - ♀ - Suez - epigyne, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-9426
Modunda phragmitis - ♀ - Suez - spermathecae, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-9427
Modunda phragmitis - ♀ - Suez - spermathecae, dorsal view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-9428
Modunda phragmitis - ♀ - Suez - insemination duct, dorsal view- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-9429
Modunda phragmitis - ♀ - Suez - spermathecae, dorsal view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)


SYNONYM
Fig.: D-9430
Modunda phragmitis - ♀ - Suez - spermathecae, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-9431
Modunda phragmitis - ♀ - Suez - receptacles, dorsal view- © LOGUNOV, D. V. (2000)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-967
cf. Modunda phragmitis "1 ♂ Icius angustatus Luc.? B.1832" Coll. O.P.-CAMBRIDGE, Oxford, general appearance- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-968
cf. Modunda phragmitis "1 ♂ Icius angustatus Luc.? B.1832" Coll. O.P.-CAMBRIDGE, Oxford, palpal organ ventrally- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-969
cf. Modunda phragmitis "1 ♂ Icius angustatus Luc.? B.1832" Coll. O.P.-CAMBRIDGE, Oxford, palpal organ laterally- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-19577
Modunda phragmitis - ♂ - Fayum- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)


SYNONYM
Fig.: D-19578
Modunda phragmitis - ♂ - Fayum- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-19579
Modunda phragmitis - ♂ - Fayum- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-19580
Modunda phragmitis - ♀ - Fayum- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-970
"12135 Modunda phragmitis ES Suez! 89" "TYPUS? M.E. GALIANO" - coll. SIMON, MNHN-Paris- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-971
"12135 Modunda phragmitis ES Suez! 89" "TYPUS? M.E. GALIANO" - coll. SIMON, MNHN-Paris- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)

SYNONYM
Fig.: D-972
"12135 Modunda phragmitis ES Suez! 89" "TYPUS? M.E. GALIANO" - coll. SIMON, MNHN-Paris- © PRÓSZYŃSKI, J. (1987)






Fig.: F-23765
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - dorsal view. Scale bar: 1 mm - © PARMAR, S. & PRAJAPATI, D. A. (2023)


Fig.: F-23770
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - left pedipalp, ventral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm - © PARMAR, S. & PRAJAPATI, D. A. (2023)


Fig.: F-23771
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - left pedipalp, retrolateral view. Scale bar: 0.1 mm - © PARMAR, S. & PRAJAPATI, D. A. (2023)


Fig.: F-2940
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - © WESOŁOWSKA, W. & VAN HARTEN, A. (2007)


Fig.: F-2941
Modunda staintoni - ♂ - © WESOŁOWSKA, W. & VAN HARTEN, A. (2007)

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An annotated checklist of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of India. AkiNik Publications, New Delhi 75 pp.
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Reassignment of the Indian species of Zygoballus to Bianor and Rhene (Araneae: Salticidae). , Simpsonville. 82.1: 1-4.
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A redefinition of the genera Bianor PECKHAM & PECKHAM, 1885 and Harmochirus SIMON, 1885, with the establishment of a new genus Sibianor gen.n. (Aranei: Salticidae). Moscow, Moscow. 9 4: 221-286.
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Further notes on the Harmochireae of Africa (Araneae, Salticidae, Pelleninae). 16: 265-290.
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Taxonomic notes on the Harmochirina SIMON, 1903 from South and South-East Asia (Aranei: Salticidae). , Moscow. 28 1: 99-112.
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New distribution records of two jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Gujarat, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 15 5: 23276-23278.
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General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species and characters of two new genera. 1870: 212-354.
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Catalogue of Salticidae (Aranei) specimens kept in major collections of the world. , Warszawa. 28 17: 367-519.
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Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej SiedlcachWSRP 1-172.
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Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae): Synthesis of Quotations in the World Literature since 1940, with Basic Taxonomic Data since 1758. Siedlce 366 pp.
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Descriptions d´Arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. 45: 141-161.
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