Oecobius marathaus Tikader, 1962

Magalhães, Mayara D. F. & Santos, Adalberto J., 2018, The spider family Oecobiidae in Madagascar, including four new species and a new record, Zootaxa 4527 (1), pp. 37-48 : 46

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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FIGURE 6. Geographic distribution records of Oecobius Lucas, 1846 in Madagascar (red) and Paroecobius Lamoral, 1981 (yellow) in the Afrotropical region. Red circle: Oecobius marathaus Tikader, 1962; red squares: Oecobius kowalskii sp. nov.; yellow square: Paroecobius private sp. nov.; yellow triangle: Paroecobius rico sp. nov.; yellow circles: Paroecobius skipper sp. nov.; yellow diamond: Paroecobius wilmotae Lamoral, 1981; yellow cross: Paroecobius nicolaii Wunderlich, 1995. Geographic coordinates for continental African Paroecobius were obtained from Wunderlich (1995) and from Google Earth, for P. nicolaii and P. wilmotae respectively.