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Oecobiidae
Oecobiidae, also called disc web spiders, is a family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders, including about 100 described species. They are small to moderate sized spiders, about long combined head and body length, depending on the species. Larger ones tend to be desert-dwelling. The legs are unusually evenly placed around the Cephalothorax, prosoma; most other spiders have some legs directed clearly forward and the rest clearly backward, or all forward. The first two pairs of legs of many Oecobiids point forward then curve backwards. This gives a scurrying, wheel-like impression that is characteristic of many Oecobiidae, and is helpful as a rough aid to identification in the field. Characteristic of the family is the anal gland; it bears a tuft of long hairs. Typical colour patterns range from dark-patterned cream in some smaller species, to a small number of symmetrically placed, conspicuous round light spots (commonly yellow or white) on a background that may be anything from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Oecobiidae Species
This page lists all described species of the spider family Oecobiidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog : † ''Lebanoecobius'' † '' Lebanoecobius'' Wunderlich, 2004 * † ''L. schleei'' Wunderlich, 2004 — Cretaceous Lebanese amber † ''Mizalia'' † '' Mizalia'' Koch and Berendt, 1854 * † ''M. blauvelti'' Petrunkevitch, 1942 — Palaeogene Baltic amber * † ''M. gemini'' Wunderlich, 2004 — Palaeogene Baltic amber * † ''M. rostrata'' Koch and Berendt, 1854 (type) — Palaeogene Baltic amber * † ''M. spirembolus'' Wunderlich, 2004 — Palaeogene Baltic amber ''Oecobius'' '' Oecobius'' Lucas, 1846 * '' O. achimota'' Shear & Benoit, 1974 — Ghana * '' O. aculeatus'' Wunderlich, 1987 — Canary Is. * '' O. affinis'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 — Lebanon * '' O. agaetensis'' Wunderlich, 1992 — Canary Is. * '' O. albipunctatus'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 — Syria * '' O. alhoutyae'' Wunderlich, 1995 — Kuwait * '' O. amboseli'' Shear & Benoit, 1974 — Egy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oecobius Navus
Wall spider is the common name for members of the genus ''Oecobius'' in the family Oecobiidae. The members of these several species are all small spiders that make small flat webs over crevices in walls and in similar spaces. They are cribellate spiders, meaning that they produce silk Silk is a natural fiber, natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be weaving, woven into textiles. The protein fiber of silk is composed mainly of fibroin and is most commonly produced by certain insect larvae to form cocoon (silk), c ... through a sieve-like plate of many parallel spigots, so that it emerges in a bundle of many invisibly fine parallel fibres with no adhesive covering to glue them together. Instead the bundles part into separate woolly cables that readily entangle small prey items, such as ants, that run into them. The spider sits in middle of the web, and when it is disturbed by suitable prey, it runs out and circles the prey with more silk to tangle it further ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wall Spider
Wall spider is the common name for members of the genus ''Oecobius'' in the family Oecobiidae. The members of these several species are all small spiders that make small flat webs over crevices in walls and in similar spaces. They are cribellate spiders, meaning that they produce silk through a sieve-like plate of many parallel spigots, so that it emerges in a bundle of many invisibly fine parallel fibres with no adhesive covering to glue them together. Instead the bundles part into separate woolly cables that readily entangle small prey items, such as ants, that run into them. The spider sits in middle of the web, and when it is disturbed by suitable prey, it runs out and circles the prey with more silk to tangle it further. It subdues the prey by biting it, and carries one or more items bundled in silk, seeking a refuge where it can feed. One cosmopolitan species is ''O. navus'' (sometimes also called ''O. annulipes''). One species of interest is ''Oecobius civitas''. Wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platoecobius
''Platoecobius'' is a genus of spiders in the family Oecobiidae Oecobiidae, also called disc web spiders, is a family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders, including about 100 described species. They are small to moderate sized spiders, about long combined head and body length, depending on the species. Lar .... It was first described in 1935 by Chamberlin & Ivie. , it contains 2 species. References External links iNaturalist Oecobiidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of the United States Spiders of Argentina {{Araneomorphae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uroecobius
''Uroecobius'' is a genus of spiders in the family Oecobiidae. It was first described in 1976 by Kullmann & Zimmermann. , it contains only one species, ''Uroecobius ecribellatus'', found in South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O .... References Oecobiidae Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Spiders of South Africa {{Araneomorphae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urocteana
''Urocteana'' is a genus of spiders in the family Oecobiidae. It was first described in 1961 by Roewer. , it contains only one species, ''Urocteana poecilis'', from Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t .... References Oecobiidae Monotypic Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Roewer {{Araneomorphae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paroecobius
''Paroecobius'' is a genus of spiders in the family Oecobiidae Oecobiidae, also called disc web spiders, is a family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders, including about 100 described species. They are small to moderate sized spiders, about long combined head and body length, depending on the species. Lar .... It was first described in 1981 by Lamoral. , it contains 2 species, found in South Africa and Botswana. References Oecobiidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa {{Araneomorphae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cribellum
Cribellum literally means "little sieve", and in biology the term generally applies to anatomical structures in the form of tiny perforated plates. In certain groups of diatoms it refers to microscopically punctured regions of the frustule, or outer layer. In certain groups of spider species, so-called cribellate spiders, the cribellum is a silk spinning organ. Unlike the usual Spinneret (spider), spinnerets of spiders, the cribellum consists of one or more plates covered in thousands of tiny Spinneret, spigots, tiny holes that hardly project from the surface, in contrast to the elongated spigots that project from spinnerets. These minute spigots produce extremely fine fibers, merely tens of nanometres thick, which are combed out by the spider's calamistrum, producing silk with a woolly texture. The fibers are so small in diameter that they are strongly subject to Van der Waals forces. In addition, the fibres have a surface that absorbs waxes from the Arthropod_cuticle#Morph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uroctea
''Uroctea'' is a genus of spiders that is found in Eurasia and Africa. It is sometimes put into its own family, ''Urocteidae''. Their tent-like web is very similar to the ones '' Oecobius'' builds; but Uroctea species do not have a cribellum Cribellum literally means "little sieve", and in biology the term generally applies to anatomical structures in the form of tiny perforated plates. In certain groups of diatoms it refers to microscopically punctured regions of the frustule, or .... Species The 18 species of this genus include: * '' Uroctea compactilis'' L. Koch, 1878 (China, Korea, Japan) * '' Uroctea concolor'' Simon, 1882 (Yemen) * '' Uroctea durandi'' (Latreille, 1809) (Mediterranean) * '' Uroctea grossa'' Roewer, 1960 (Iran, Afghanistan) * '' Uroctea hashemitorum'' Bosselaers, 1999 (Jordan) * '' Uroctea indica'' Pocock, 1900 (India) * '' Uroctea lesserti'' Schenkel, 1936 (China, Korea) * '' Uroctea limbata'' (C. L. Koch, 1843) (Palearctic) * '' Uroctea manii'' Pate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araneomorphae
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders") are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their close kin), where they point straight down. Araneomorphs comprise the vast majority (about 93%) of living spiders. Distinguishing characteristics Most spider species are Araneomorphae, which have chelicerae, fangs that face towards each other, increasing the orientations that they can employ during prey-capture. They have fewer book lungs (when present) – usually one pair – and the females typically live one year. The Mygalomorphae have chelicerae, fangs that face towards the ground, and which are parallel to the long axis of the spider's body, thus they have only one orientation they can employ during prey capture. They have two pairs of book lungs, and the females often live many years. Image:Cheiracanthium pun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uroctea Durandi
''Uroctea durandi'' is a Mediterranean spider about 16 mm in length, dark in color with five yellow spots on its back. It lives under rocks, where it constructs an upside-down tent-like hanging web about 4 cm in diameter. From each of the six openings two signaling threads protrude. When an insect or millipede Millipedes (originating from the Latin , "thousand", and , "foot") are a group of arthropods that are characterised by having two pairs of jointed legs on most body segments; they are known scientifically as the class Diplopoda, the name derive ... touches one of these threads, the spider lunges out of the respective opening and catches its prey. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q145988 Oecobiidae Spiders of Europe Spiders of Africa Spiders described in 1809 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
