Oecobiidae

Wall spider Oecobius navus, copyright Robert Whyte.

Belongs within: Eresoidea.

The Oecobiidae are a cosmopolitan group of small to medium-sized spiders that construct small star-shaped mesh-webs or multilayered webs over cracks or crevices in rocks or walls (Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007).

Characters (from Jocqué & Dippenaar-Schoeman 2007): Small to medium-sized araneomorph spiders; three tarsal claws; cribellate or ecribellate; entelegyne; six or eight eyes; anal tubercle large, two-segmented with a double fringe of curved setae.

<==Oecobiidae
    |--Uroecobiinae JD-S07
    |    |--Urocteana Roewer 1961 JD-S07
    |    `--Uroecobius Jullmann & Zimmermann 1976 JD-S07
    |--Urocteinae [Urocteidae] JD-S07
    |    |--Paruroctea blauvelti Petrunkevitch 1942 S93
    |    `--Uroctea Dufour 1820 JD-S07
    |         `--U. durandi A99
    `--Oecobiinae JD-S07
         |--Paroecobius Lamoral 1981 JD-S07
         |--Platoecobius Chamberlin & Ivie 1935 JD-S07
         `--Oecobius Lucas 1846 PVD10
              |--*O. navus Blackwell 1859 PVD10
              |--O. annulipes Lucas 1846 E12
              |--O. cellariorum JD-S07
              |--O. concinnus (Simon 1893) GLV14
              `--O. domesticus Lucas 1846 E12

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[A99] Ax, P. 1999. Das System der Metazoa II. Ein Lehrbuch der phylogenetischen Systematik. Gustav Fisher Verlag: Stuttgart (transl. 2000. Multicellular Animals: The phylogenetic system of the Metazoa vol. 2. Springer).

[E12] Evenhuis, N. L. 2012. Publication and dating of the Exploration Scientifique de l'Algérie: Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articulés (1846–1849) by Pierre Hippolyte Lucas. Zootaxa 3448: 1–61.

[GLV14] García, L. F., M. Lacava & C. Viera. 2014. Diet composition and prey selectivity by the spider Oecobius concinnus (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from Colombia. Journal of Arachnology 42 (2): 199–201.

[JD-S07] Jocqué, R., & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman. 2007. Spider Families of the World. Royal Museum for Central Africa: Tervuren (Belgium).

[PVD10] Paquin, P., C. J. Vink & N. Dupérré. 2010. Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key and species list. Manaaki Whenua Press: Lincoln (New Zealand).

[S93] Selden, P. A. 1993. Arthropoda (Aglaspidida, Pycnogonida and Chelicerata). In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 297–320. Chapman & Hall: London.

Eresoidea

Social spiders Stegodyphus dumicola, copyright Bernard Dupont.

Belongs within: Neocribellatae.
Contains: Oecobiidae, Hersiliidae.

The Eresoidea are a group of cribellate spiders united by the lack of the paracribellum, a set of silk spigots alongside the cribellum.

<==Eresoidea [Hersilioidea] JD-S07
    |--+--Oecobiidae JD-S07
    |  `--Hersiliidae JD-S07
    `--Eresidae JD-S07
         |--Seothyra Purcell 1903 JD-S07
         |--Adonea Simon 1873 JD-S07
         |--Dorceus Koch 1846 JD-S07
         |--Gandanameno Lehtinen 1967 JD-S07
         |--Paradonea Lawrence 1968 JD-S07
         |--Penestomus Simon 1902 [Penestominae] JD-S07
         |--Wajane Lehtinen 1967 JD-S07
         |--Dresserus Simon 1876 JD-S07
         |    `--D. armatus Pocock 1901 P01
         |--Eresus Walckenaer 1805 [Eresinae] JD-S07
         |    |--E. curtipes Koch & Berendt 1854 S93
         |    |--E. granosus Simon 1895 S95
         |    |--E. guerinii Lucas 1846 E12
         |    |--E. kollari R14
         |    |--E. monachus Koch & Berendt 1854 S93
         |    |--E. niger S95 [incl. Aranea cinnaberina C01, E. cinnaberinus S95, A. quattuorguttata C01]
         |    `--E. tristis Croneberg 1875 S95
         `--Stegodyphus Simon 1873 JD-S07
              |--S. africanus (Blackwell 1866) A02
              |--S. dufouri S94
              |--S. dumicola Pocock 1898 WS02
              |--S. lineatus Latreille 1817 BCS02
              |--S. mimosarum Pavesi 1883 BCS02
              |--S. sabulosus Tullgren 1910 A02
              `--S. sarasinorum Karsch 1892 K92

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[A02] Agnarsson, I. 2002. Sharing a web—on the relation of sociality and kleptoparasitism in theridiid spiders (Theridiidae, Araneae). Journal of Arachnology 30 (2): 181–188.

[BCS02] Bodasing, M., T. Crouch & R. Slotow. 2002. The influence of starvation on dispersal in the social spider, Stegodyphus mimosarum (Araneae, Eresidae). Journal of Arachnology 30 (2): 373–382.

[C01] Cambridge, F. O. P. 1901. A revision of the genera of the Araneae or spiders with reference to their type species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7, 7: 51–65.

[E12] Evenhuis, N. L. 2012. Publication and dating of the Exploration Scientifique de l'Algérie: Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Articulés (1846–1849) by Pierre Hippolyte Lucas. Zootaxa 3448: 1–61.

[JD-S07] Jocqué, R., & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman. 2007. Spider Families of the World. Royal Museum for Central Africa: Tervuren (Belgium).

[K92] Karsch, F. 1892. Arachniden von Ceylon und von Minikoy gesammelt von den Herren Doctoren P. und F. Sarasin. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 36 (2): 267–310.

[P01] Pocock, R. I. 1901. Descriptions of some new African Arachnida. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7, 7: 284–288.

[R14] Ramírez, M. J. 2014. The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 1–374.

[S93] Selden, P. A. 1993. Arthropoda (Aglaspidida, Pycnogonida and Chelicerata). In: Benton, M. J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2 pp. 297–320. Chapman & Hall: London.

[S94] Shimizu, A. 1994. Phylogeny and classification of the family Pompilidae (Hymenoptera). Tokyo Metropolitan University Bulletin of Natural History 2: 1–142.

[S95] Simon, E. 1895. Arachnides recueillis par M^r G. Potanine en Chine et en Mongolie (1876–1879). Izviestĭia Imperatorskoi Akademĭi Nauk” [Bulletin de l’Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Pétersbourg], Ser. 5, 4: 331–345.

[WS02] Whitmore, C., R. Slotov, T. E. Crouch & A. S. Dippenaar-Schoeman. 2002. Diversity of spiders (Araneae) in a savanna reserve, Northern Province, South Africa. Journal of Arachnology 30 (2): 344–356.