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Oecobiidae  Blackwall, 1862 / Oecobius  Lucas, 1846   16 species

Oecobius teliger O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:005978

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Description
Male

Pedipalp: radix apophysis large, bipartite. Prosoma length: 0.7-0.85 mm. Legs distinctly annulated.

Female

Epigyne with a large, posteriorly bipartite plate.

Additional information

Under stones in grassland (Chios, Greece)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 1995l)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Wunderlich 1995l)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Marusik & Zonstein 2024)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Marusik & Zonstein 2024)

species

male Bulbal apophysis
(Wunderlich 1995l)

species

male Habitus, dorsal view
(Marusik & Zonstein 2024)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1995l)

species

female Epigyne
(Demir et al. 2009b)

species

female Habitus, dorsal view
(Demir et al. 2009b)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Russell-Smith et al., 2011) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Demir H, Seyyar O, Aktaş M (2009b) Contributions to the knowledge of the genus Oecobius Lucas, 1846 from Turkey (Araneae: Oecobiidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 33: 457-462 pdf

Marusik Y M, Zonstein S (2024) The spider genus Oecobius (Araneae: Oecobiidae) in Israel, with description of a new species and new synonymies. Israel Journal of Entomology 53: 49-62 pdf

Russell-Smith A, Allison R, Askins M, Blumsom W, Snazell R, Spilling C (2011) A provisional checklist and gazetteer of the spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 133-167 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Wunderlich J (1995l) Zu Taxonomie und Biogeographie der Arten der Gattung Oecobius Lucas 1846, mit Neubeschreibungen aus der Mediterraneis und von der Arabischen Halbinsel (Arachnida: Araneae: Oecobiidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 4: 585-608 pdf

Updates
22-06-2024 Image insert
22-06-2024 Distribution update Detail
11-09-2014 Image insert