Oecobius navus Blackwall, 1859

Dean, David Allen, 2016, Catalogue of Texas spiders, ZooKeys 570, pp. 1-703 : 250

Oecobius navus Blackwall, 1859

Oecobius navus Wunderlich 1995a: 595 [S]

Oecobius parietalis (Hentz, 1850); Gertsch and Mulaik 1940: 335; Vogel 1970b: 15 [Texas records]

Oecobius annulipes Lucas, 1846; Brown 1974: 235; Cobb 1994: 391; Jackman 1997: 45, desc., 166; Shear 1970: 138, mf, desc. (figs 9-10, 14, 29-30, 50-51); Vincent and Frankie 1985: 380

Distribution.

Central, west, and south Texas; Atascosa, Bexar, Brazos, Cameron, Dallas, Erath, Fort Bend, Harris, Hidalgo, Nacogdoches, Nueces, Smith, Starr, Travis, Val Verde

Locality.

Comstock Railroad Tunnel, Green Island Bird Refuge

Time of activity.

Male (March - May, August - September, December); female (January - June, August - December)

Habitat.

(soil/woodland: live oak, palm tree, punkwood, Quercus virginiana ); (structures: indoors, on brick wall, side of building, in house along window sill)

Method.

sweeping [m]

Eggs/spiderlings.

Hidalgo [3 spiders, 3 eggs in eggsac] [TAMU]

Type.

Portugal, Madeira Islands

Etymology.

Latin, referring to ship

Collection.

DMNS, MCZ, MSU, TAMU, TMM