The spider genus Oecobius (Araneae: Oecobiidae) in Israel, with description of a new species and new synonymies

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Marusik, Yuri M., Zonstein, Sergei (2024): The spider genus Oecobius (Araneae: Oecobiidae) in Israel, with description of a new species and new synonymies. Israel Journal of Entomology 53 (17): 49-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.11532642, URL: dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11532641 ABSTRACT An annotated list of nine species of Oecobius Lucas, 1846, known from Israel to date, is given.

Five of them are recorded in the country for the first time; the previous tentative records of another two species in Israel are confirmed. Two names, Hersiliola brachyplura Strand, 1913 and Hersiliola b. demaculata Strand, 1914 are considered junior subjective synonyms of the widespread O. navus Blackwall, 1859.A new species, O. armiachi n. sp. is described from Israel based on both sexes. The new species differs from all congeners by the shape of the copulatory organs, and most likely represents a yet undescribed genus.