Species Oecobius navus Blackwall, 1859

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Species Oecobius navus Blackwall, 1859

Oecobius navus Blackwall, J. 1859. Descriptions of newly discovered spiders captured by James Yate Johnson Esq., in the Island of Madeira. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4: 255-267 [266].
Type data:
Status unknown, no types known, Madeira, Spain.
Type locality references:
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.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Bonnet, P. 1961. Bibliographia Araneorum. Toulouse : Douadoure Vol. 2. [1945-1961] [3132]

Introduction

Perviously considered to be a synonym of Oecobius annulipes Lucas, 1846, following Bonnet (1961: 3132), but now that species is considered to occur only in Algeria (Wunderlich 1995).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
- Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Predator, sedentary.

Extra Ecological Information

Introduced.

General References

Bonnet, P. 1961. Bibliographia Araneorum. Toulouse : Douadoure Vol. 2. [1945-1961]

Clyne, D. 1969. Australian Spiders. Sydney : Nelson 168 pp. (biology)

Main, B.Y. 1976. Spiders. Sydney : Collins 296 pp. (biology)

Wunderlich, J. 1995. First endemic Australian Oecobiidae and Nesticidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 38: 591-692

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020		25-Nov-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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