Uroctea

Uroctea is a genus of spiders that is found in Eurasia and Africa. It is sometimes put into its own family, Urocteidae. Their tent-like web is very similar to the ones Oecobius builds; but Uroctea species do not have a cribellum.

Species

, this genus includes 23 species:

• Uroctea chenyui <small>Lin & Li, 2024</small> – China
• Uroctea compactilis <small>L. Koch, 1878</small> – China, Korea, Japan
• Uroctea concolor <small>Simon, 1882</small> – Yemen
• Uroctea durandi <small>(Latreille, 1809)</small> – Mediterranean (type species)
• Uroctea gambronica <small>Zamani & Bosselaers, 2020</small> – Iran
• Uroctea grossa <small>Roewer, 1960</small> – Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tadjikistan, Afghanistan
• Uroctea hashemitorum <small>Bosselaers, 1999</small> – Jordan
• Uroctea indica <small>Pocock, 1900</small> – India
• Uroctea lesserti <small>Schenkel, 1936</small> – China, Korea
• Uroctea limbata <small>(C. L. Koch, 1843)</small> – Senegal to North Africa, Middle East to Central Asia
• Uroctea lutica <small>Dimitrov, 2024</small> – Iran
• Uroctea manii <small>Patel, 1987</small> – India
• Uroctea matthaii <small>Dyal, 1935</small> – Pakistan
• Uroctea multiprocessa <small>Z. Z. Yang & Zhang, 2019</small> – China
• Uroctea paivani <small>(Blackwall, 1868)</small> – Cape Verde, Canary Islands
• Uroctea quinquenotata <small>Simon, 1910</small> – South Africa
• Uroctea schinzi <small>Simon, 1887</small> – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa
• Uroctea semilimbata <small>Simon, 1910</small> – Namibia
• Uroctea septemnotata <small>, 1920</small> – Namibia, South Africa
• Uroctea septempunctata <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)</small> – Israel
• Uroctea sudanensis <small>, 1966</small> – Sudan, Somalia, Yemen
• Uroctea thaleri <small>Rheims, Santos & van Harten, 2007</small> – Turkey, Israel, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, India
• Uroctea yunlingensis <small>Z. Z. Yang & Zhao, 2019</small> – China

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