Modunda
{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
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| taxon = Modunda
| authority = Simon, 1901
| type_species = M. staintoni
| type_species_authority = (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = {{Specieslist
| M. aeneiceps|Simon, 1901 – Sri Lanka, China
| M. orientalis|Dönitz & Strand, 1906 – Japan
| M. staintoni|(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – South Africa to India}}
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Modunda is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1901| title=Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae (suite)| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| pages=141–161| volume=45| author-link=Eugène Simon}} {{as of|2019|07}} it contains only three species, found only in Asia and South Africa: M. aeneiceps, M. orientalis, and M. staintoni.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Modunda Simon, 1901| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-08-06| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2795| doi=10.24436/2}}
References
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External links
- [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/modunda/stai-kph.htm Photograph of M. staintoni]
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