Oecobius albipunctatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

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 (Oxford, England) 53 (17), pp. 49-62 : 55

Oecobius albipunctatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872

( Figs 4A, 6A)

Oecobius albipunctatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 222 (♀); Wunderlich 1995: 590, fig. 4 (♀).

Material examined: Israel: Upper Galilee : 1♀, 2♀ subad., northern slope of Mt Meron, 33°01'N 35°24'E, 900 m, 25.iv.2013, S. Zonstein (SMNHTAU) .

Distribution: Syria (environs of Damascus) and Israel (Upper Galilee; this is the first record in Israel).

Habitat: The spiders were collected from roadside rocky escarps.

Notes: The pale overall coloration of the preserved specimens (which is light to medium brown in live spiders) looks to be distinguishable from a darker coloration of the syntypes, mentioned in both the original description and Wunderlich (1995). Nevertheless, the collected adult female shares with the syntypes the specific shape of the copulatory structures that is dissimilar to other types of the epigyne, known within the congeners (see Fig. 6A cf. Wunderlich 1995, fig. 4).