Elegant Tiny House Dweller
Like many similar-looking species of Oecobius, the eight eyes are grouped closely in a cluster. The carapace is sub-circular and slightly pointed at the front, wider than long, and with three pairs of spots on its lateral slopes. The abdomen has variegated darker markings.
| Length | ♀ 3 mm; ♂ 2 mm. |
| Habitat | On tree trunks in parkland, and on sheltered parts of man-made structures. |
| Type Locality | Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. |
| Distribution | Japan, Laos, Singapore, Venezuela. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Holotype
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA; ♀ of Oecobius benneri (Shear, 1970)
Holotype
American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA; ♀ (considered lost) of Oecobius vokesi (Shear, 1970)
Holotype
Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; ♂ of Oecobius audanti (Bryant, 1948b)
Paratype(s)
Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 2♂ 7♀ of Oecobius audanti (Bryant, 1948b)
Syntype(s)
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1♂ 1♀ (♀ as holotype, ♂ as paratype, but there is no evidence for this in the original description, so the ♀ should have been declared the lectotype) (Shear, 1970)
Allotype
Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; ♀ of Oecobius audanti (Bryant, 1948b)
Oecobius concinnus (nomen nudum)
Simon, 1892a Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier: 247, f. 198 doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973
Oecobius concinnus (Original description ♂♀)
Simon, 1893b Voyage de M: 435, pl. 9, f. 2
Oecobius nieborowskii (Original description ♀)
Kulczyński, 1909a Fragmenta Arachnologica: 454, pl. 22, f. 30
Oecobius benneri (Original description ♀)
Petrunkevitch, 1929b The spiders of Porto Rico: 75, f. 64-66
Thalamia nieborowskii (Original description ♂)
Banks, 1930b Arachnida: 272, pl. 2, f. 7-8
Oecobius vokesi (Original description ♀)
Gertsch & Davis, 1942 Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico: 19, f. 40
Oecobius beatus (♂; misidentified per Shear, 1970: 143)
Bryant, 1948a Some spiders from Acapulco, Mexico: 57, pl. 9, f. 1-2 doi:10.1155/1948/45193
Oecobius audanti (Original description ♂♀)
Bryant, 1948b The spiders of Hispaniola: 344, pl. 1, f. 4, pl. 2, f. 10, 12
Tarapaca nieborowskii (♂♀, Transferred from Oecobius, Synonym of Oecobius audanti, O. benneri and O. vokesi)
Lehtinen, 1967 Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha: 267, f. 27, 30
Oecobius concinnus (♂♀, Synonym of Tarapaca nieborowskii)
Shear, 1970 The spider family Oecobiidae in North America, Mexico, and the West Indies: 141, f. 5-6, 15, 31-32, 52-53
Oecobius (♀; here per Santos & Gonzaga, 2003: 245)
Baum, 1972 Zum "Cribellaten-Problem": Die Genitalstrukturen der Oecobiinae und Urocteinae (Arach: 120, f. 23-25
Oecobius concinnus (♂♀)
Santos & Gonzaga, 2003 On the spider genus Oecobius Lucas, 1846 in South America (Araneae, Oecobiidae): 245, f. 7-11, 17, 20-21 doi:10.1080/713834668
Tarapaca concinnus (♂♀)
Saaristo, 2010 Araneae: 1008, f. 21.7-9
Oecobius concinnus (♂♀)
Ono, 2011b Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan: 446, f. 31-36
Oecobius concinnus (♀)
Jäger & Praxaysombath, 2011b Spiders from Laos with forty-three new records and first results from the provinces Bolikhamsay and Champasak (Arachnida: Araneae): 13, f. 8-10 doi:10.2476/asjaa.60.9
Oecobius concinnus (♂♀)
Alcántar-Valenzuela, Chamé-Vázquez & Jiménez, 2023 Redescription of Oecobius juangarcia Shear, 1970 and new records of other species of Oecobius Lucas, 1846 from Mexico (Araneae, Oecobiidae): 51, f. 17-20, 24-29
Oecobius concinnus (♀)
Baert et al., 2023 Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands: 16, f. 60A-D
Japan, Laos, Singapore, Venezuela.