Oecobius navus Blackwall, 1859
| FAMILY: OECOBIIDAE Blackwall, 1862 Genus: Oecobius Lucas, 1846 Species: Oecobius navus Blackwall, 1859 ![]() |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
flatmesh weavers
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Point Collections & Seasonality
Global Distribution: Cosmopolitan
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CA SC TX
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Seasonality
Specimen Search
Specimen list |
Natural History & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† (not yet recorded or unknown)
†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280. PDF
Habitat (published): (not yet published or unknown)
Habitat (<30 randomly chosen specimens): Inside house; Coastal scrub / Coast Live Oak woodland; In house; Collected in building (Monterey Firestation);
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Image(s) of Habitus:
Details About Males
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
| Male Dimensions: (Dimensions not yet available) |
Image of External Male Genitalia: |
Details About Females
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Baum, S. 1972. Zum "Cribellaten-Problem": Die Genitalstrukturen der Oecobiinae und Urocteinae (Arach.: Aran: Oecobiidae). Abh. Verh. naturw. Ver. Hamburg (N.F.) 16: 101-153.
Benoit, P. L. G. 1976. Un Oecobius nouveaux des régions montagneuses du centre africain (Araneae Oecobiidae). Revue Zool. afr. 90: 669-670.
Blackwall, J. 1859. Descriptions of newly discovered spiders captured by James Yate Johnson Esq., in the island of Madeira. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (3) 4: 255-267.
Butler, L. S. G. 1929. Studies in Victorian spiders. No. 1. Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria (N.S.) 42: 41-52.
Cambridge, O. P.-. 1873. On some new species of European spiders. Jour. Linn. Soc. London 11: 530-547.
Chamberlin, R. V. & W. Ivie. 1935. Nearctic spiders of the family Urocteidae. Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 28: 265-272.
Chen, Z. F. & Z. H. Zhang. 1991. Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, 356 pp.
Chikuni, Y. 1989. Pictorial Encyclopedia of Spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publ. Co., Tokyo, 310 pp.
Coddington, J. A. 1990. Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb-weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea). Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 496: 1-52.
Comstock, J. H. 1912. The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Garden City, New York, pp. 1-721
Denis, J. 1963. Spiders from the Madeira and Salvage Islands. Bolm Mus. munic. Funchal 17: 29-48.
Denis, J. 1962. Les araignées de l'archipel de Madère (Mission du Professeur Vandel). Publções Inst. Zool. Dr Augusto Nobre 79: 1-118.
Emerton, J. H. 1909. Supplement to the New England Spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 14: 171-236.
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Hassan, A. I. 1953. The Oecobiidae of Egypt. Bull. zool. Soc. Egypt 11: 14-28.
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Hentz, N. M. 1850. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 6: 18-35, 271-295.
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Keyserling, E. 1891. Die Spinnen Amerikas. Brasilianische Spinnen. Nürnberg, 3: 1-278.
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Kulczynski, W. 1899. Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozpr. spraw. wydz. mat. przyrod. Akad. umiej. Cracov 36: 319-461.
Kullmann, E. & W. Zimmermann. 1976. Beschreibung der neuen Spinnenart Oecobius afghanicus mit ergänzenden Angaben zu Oecobius putus und Oecobius annulipes (Arachnida: Araneae: Oecobiidae). Ent. Germ. 3: 41-50.
Kumada, K. 1988. Oecobius cellariorum found in Japan. Atypus 91: 1-4.
Lawrence, R. F. 1952. New spiders from the eastern half of South Africa. Ann. Natal Mus. 12: 183-226.
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‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog





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