Common Swollen Jaw Spider
The abdomen of both males and females of this black spider is armoured with a glossy scutum with four paired patches of white setae. The first tibiae and metatarsi are each armed with six and four pairs of long and reclining spines respectively.
| Length | ♀ 7 mm; ♂ 5 mm. |
| Habitat | Under rocks in gardens, villages, and other degraded woodlands. |
| Biology | Construct silken tubular retreats well camouflaged with integrated soil particles. At each end is a round entrance. |
| Type Locality | Penang, Malaysia. |
| Distribution | Widespread, including India, Indonesia, Malaysia (Sabah, Penang), Philippines, Singapore, Thailand. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Holotype
Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany; ♀ (29202) of Corinna nossibeensis (Mbo & Haddad, 2020)
Holotype
National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; ♀ (5115/18) of Castianeira bengalensis (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019a)
Paratype(s)
National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; 2♀ (5142/18) of Castianeira bengalensis (Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019a)
Oedignatha scrobiculata (Original description ♀)
Oedignatha decorata (Original description ♀)
Corinna nossibeensis (Original description ♀)
Strand, 1907d Diagnosen neuer Spinnen aus Madagaskar und Sansibar: 740
Oedignatha scrobiculata (♀, D♂)
Gravely, 1931 Some Indian spiders of the families Ctenidae, Sparassidae, Selenopidae and Clubionidae: 268, f. 18C-D
Castianeira bengalensis (Original description ♀)
Biswas, 1984a Description of six new species of spiders of the families Clubionidae, Gnaphosidae and Salticidae from India: 120, f. 4-6
Oedignatha scrobiculata (♂♀)
Majumder & Tikader, 1991 Studies on some spiders of the family Clubionidae from India: 116, f. 240-245
Phrurolithus ulopatulisus (Original description ♂♀)
Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 Riceland spiders of South and Southeast Asia: 174, f. 100a-i, 101a-e
Castianeira bengalensis (probably an Oedignatha)
Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]): 396
Oedignatha scrobiculata (♂♀)
Saaristo, 2002 New species and interesting new records of spiders from Seychelles (Arachnida, Araneaea [sic]): 9, f. 18, 20
Oedignatha scrobiculata (♂)
Tso et al., 2005 Two new and one newly recorded species of Corinnidae and Liocranidae from Taiwan (Arachnida: Araneae): 46, f. 1-3 doi:10.2476/asjaa.54.45
Oedignatha scrobiculata (♂♀)
Saaristo, 2010 Araneae: 61, f. 6.8, 10
Oedignatha scrobiculata (♂♀)
Jacquot, Derepas & Deguine, 2016 Seven newly recorded species and families of spiders from Reunion Island (Malagasy region) (Araneae, Araneomorphae): 323, f. 2a-k doi:10.3406/bsef.2016.2779
Oedignatha scrobiculata (♀, Synonym of Castianeira bengalensis)
Sankaran, Caleb & Sebastian, 2019a New synonymies and transfers in Castianeira Keyserling, 1879 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae) from India: 338, f. 5A-E,H doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4623.2.7
Oedignatha scrobiculata (♀, Synonym of Corinna nossibeensis)
Mbo & Haddad, 2020 Remarks on two poorly known Dionycha spiders from the Afrotropical Region (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae, Liocranidae): 327, f. 1C-F doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.325
Oedignatha scrobiculata (♀)
Caleb, 2020b Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna of the scrub jungle in the Madras Christian College campus, Chennai, India: 15723, f. 10A-F, 26G doi:10.11609/jott.5758.12.7.15711-15766
Oedignatha scrobiculata (♂♀)
Suzuki & Hisasue, 2024a Discovery of presumably introduced spiders, Oedignatha scrobiculata Thorell, 1881 (Araneae, Liocranidae) and Boagrius qiong Lin & Li, 2022 (Araneae, Palpimanidae) on Chichi-jima Island, the Ogasawara Islands, Japan: 4, f. 2A-G, 3A-F, 4A-B doi:10.3897/BDJ.12.e121421
Widespread, including India, Indonesia, Malaysia (Sabah, Penang), Philippines, Singapore, Thailand.