Oecobius marathaus Tikader 1962
Description
Oecobius marathaus Tikader, 1962
Oecobius marathaus Tikader, 1962: 684, fig. 2a–b (female holotype and female paratype from India, Poona, Jangli Maharaj
Road, 4.IV.1961, B.K. Tikader leg., probably in National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, not
examined). World Spider Catalog 2018 (complete citation list).
Distribution. Known from Brazil, India, Laos, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia (World Spider Catalog, 2018) and herein newly recorded from Madagascar (Fig. 6).
Remarks. The record of this species in Madagascar is not particularly surprising, since it has been recorded previously from the nearby Seychelles (Saaristo 1978, Santos & Gonzaga 2003) and Reunion islands (Jacquot et al. 2016). This is the second widely distributed, synanthropic species of Oecobius recorded from Madagascar. However, the previous record of O. annulipes requires confirmation, since this species has been confounded with O. navus in the literature (World Spider Catalog 2018, compare Shear 1970: figs 29, 50, 51 with Santos & Gonzaga 2003: figs 2–5).
Material examined. Madagascar, Antsiranana: Diana: Montagne des Français (12°19’22’’S 49°20’17’’E, 7.2 km 142° SE Antsiranana), 23–15.II.2001, L.J. Boutin leg., 1♂ 1♀ 4 juv. (CASENT 9000863).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2001-02-15
- Family
- Oecobiidae
- Genus
- Oecobius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Tikader
- Species
- marathaus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2001-02-15/23
- Taxonomic concept label
- Oecobius marathaus Tikader, 1962 sec. Magalhães & Santos, 2018
References
- Tikader, B. K. (1962) Studies on some spiders of the genus Oecobius (family Oecobiidae) from India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 59, 682 - 685.
- World Spider Catalog (2018) World Spider Catalog. Version 19.0. Natural History Museum Bern. Available from: http: // wsc. nmbe. ch (accessed 30 July 2018)
- Saaristo, M. I. (1978) Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the Seychelle islands, with notes on taxonomy. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 15, 99 - 126.
- Santos, A. J. & Gonzaga, M. O. (2003) On the spider genus Oecobius Lucas, 1846 in South America (Araneae, Oecobiidae). Journal of Natural History, 37, 239 - 252. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 713834668
- Jacquot, M., Derepas, B. & Deguine, J. - P. (2016) Seven newly recorded species and families of spiders from Reunion Island (Malagasy region) (Araneae, Araneomorphae). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 121 (4), 421 - 430.
- Shear, W. A. (1970) The spider family Oecobiidae in North America, Mexico, and the West Indies. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 140, 129 - 164.