Common names for these spiders are wall spider, baseboard spider and stucco spider.
101 species are described world-wide. It are cribellate spiders with six or eight eyes.
Only a single species occurs in southern Europe, Oecobius navus . The spider is cosmopolitian and only lives inside houses.
She makes a disc like web with a diameter of 30 mm with signaling threads to detect prey that stumbles over these threads.. The spider hides under the web and runs very quickly out if she detecs a prey or when disturbed.
The spider is small, 2 -2.5 mm
The next spiders were found on the Canary island La Gomera.
Seven different species are identified on this small island.
| Oecobius caesaris Wunderlich, 1987 |
| Oecobius dolosus Wunderlich, 1987 |
| Oecobius gomerensis Wunderlich, 1979 |
| Oecobius hayensis Wunderlich, 1992 |
| Oecobius persimilis Wunderlich, 1987 |
| Oecobius rugosus Wunderlich, 1987 |
| Oecobius similis Kulczynski, 1909 |
Note the special eye setting
