Oecobius concinnus Simon, 1893

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Described:

Distribution: USA to Brazil, Carribbean. Introduced to Galapagos, Seychelles, Laos, Japan (Ogasawara Is.)

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Type Repository Provide information
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m 1f (f as holotype, m as paratype, but there is no evidence for this in the original description, so the f should have been declared the lectotype) - (Shear, 1970)
  • Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA f of Oecobius benneri - (Shear, 1970)
  • Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA f (considered lost) of Oecobius vokesi - (Shear, 1970)
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m of Oecobius audanti - (Bryant, 1948b)
  • Allotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f of Oecobius audanti - (Bryant, 1948b)
  • Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 2m 7f of Oecobius audanti - (Bryant, 1948b)
Taxonomic References
Oecobius concinnus Simon, 1892a: 247, f. 198 (nomen nudum)
Oecobius concinnus Simon, 1893b: 435, pl. 9, f. 2 (Dmf) Original description
Oecobius nieborowskii Kulczyński, 1909a: 454, pl. 22, f. 30 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061263]
Oecobius benneri Petrunkevitch, 1929b: 75, f. 64-66 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061257]
Thalamia nieborowskii Banks, 1930b: 272, pl. 2, f. 7-8 (Dm)
Oecobius vokesi Gertsch & Davis, 1942: 19, f. 40 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061272]
Oecobius beatus Bryant, 1948a: 57, pl. 9, f. 1-2 (m; misidentified per Shear, 1970: 143)
Oecobius audanti Bryant, 1948b: 344, pl. 1, f. 4, pl. 2, f. 10, 12 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061256]
Tarapaca nieborowskii Lehtinen, 1967: 267, f. 27, 30 (mf, T from Oecobius, S of Oecobius audanti, O. benneri and O. vokesi)
Oecobius concinnus Shear, 1970: 141, f. 5-6, 15, 31-32, 52-53 (mf, S of Tarapaca nieborowskii)
Oecobius sp. indet. b Baum, 1972: 120, f. 23-25 (f; here per Santos & Gonzaga, 2003: 245)
Oecobius concinnus Santos & Gonzaga, 2003: 245, f. 7-11, 17, 20-21 (mf)
Tarapaca concinnus Saaristo, 2010: 1008, f. 21.7-9 (mf)
Oecobius concinnus Ono, 2011b: 446, f. 31-36 (mf)
Oecobius concinnus Jäger & Praxaysombath, 2011b: 13, f. 8-10 (f)
Oecobius concinnus Alcántar-Valenzuela, Chamé-Vázquez & Jiménez, 2023: 51, f. 17-20, 24-29 (mf)
Oecobius concinnus Baert et al., 2023: 16, f. 60A-D (f)
References

Alcántar-Valenzuela, J. J., Chamé-Vázquez, D. & Jiménez, M.-L. (2023). Redescription of Oecobius juangarcia Shear, 1970 and new records of other species of Oecobius Lucas, 1846 from Mexico (Araneae, Oecobiidae). Spixiana 46(1): 47-54. -- Show included taxa

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [[includes figs of 5 undescribed species]] -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1930b). Arachnida. In: The Norwegian Zoological Expedition to the Galapagos Islands 1925 conducted by Alf Wollebaek. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 68: 271-278, pl. 1-2. -- Show included taxa

Baum, S. (1972). Zum "Cribellaten-Problem": Die Genitalstrukturen der Oecobiinae und Urocteinae (Arach.: Aran: Oecobiidae). Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 16: 101-153. -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1948a). Some spiders from Acapulco, Mexico. Psyche, Cambridge 55(2): 55-77. doi: 10.1155/1948/45193 -- Show included taxa

Bryant, E. B. (1948b). The spiders of Hispaniola. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 100: 329-447. -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. & Davis, L. I. (1942). Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. IV. American Museum Novitates 1158: 1-19. -- Show included taxa

Jäger, P. & Praxaysombath, B. (2011b). Spiders from Laos with forty-three new records and first results from the provinces Bolikhamsay and Champasak (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Arachnologica 60(1): 9-31. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.60.9 -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1909a). Fragmenta Arachnologica. XI-XIII. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1909: 427-472, pl. 22. -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. (1967). Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468. [[second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)]] -- Show included taxa

Ono, H. (2011b). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Memoirs of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 47: 435-470. -- Show included taxa

Petrunkevitch, A. (1929b). The spiders of Porto Rico. Part one. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 30: 1-158. -- Show included taxa

Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa

Santos, A. J. & Gonzaga, M. O. (2003). On the spider genus Oecobius Lucas, 1846 in South America (Araneae, Oecobiidae). Journal of Natural History 37(2): 239-252. doi: 10.1080/713834668 -- Show included taxa

Shear, W. A. (1970). The spider family Oecobiidae in North America, Mexico, and the West Indies. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 140(4): 129-164. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1892a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 1-256. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1893b). Voyage de M. E. Simon au Venezuela (Décembre 1887–Avril 1888). 21e Mémoire. Arachnides (1). Familles des Uloboridae, Zoropsidae, Dictynidae, Oecobiidae, Filistatidae, Sicariidae, Leptonetidae, Oonopidae, Dysderidae, Caponiidae, Prodidomidae, Drassidae, Palpimanidae et Zodariidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 61(4, 1892): 423-462, pl. 9. [[publ. in April 1893]] -- Show included taxa

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Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-04-17 New taxonomic reference entry Baum, 1972
2024-12-22 New taxonomic reference entry Baert et al., 2023
2024-06-25 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2023-11-25 New taxonomic reference entry Alcántar-Valenzuela, Chamé-Vázquez & Jiménez, 2023
2017-12-10 Species distribution update Santos & Gonzaga, 2003 Old value

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