Uroctea

Uroctea Temporal range: Palaeogene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Uroctea sp. from Israel
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Oecobiidae
Genus:	Uroctea Dufour, 1820
Species
U. durandi  18 in total, see text
Diversity
18 species

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[]

The 18 species of this genus include:^[1]

• L. Koch, 1878 (China, Korea, Japan)
• Simon, 1882 (Yemen)
• Uroctea durandi (Latreille, 1809) (Mediterranean)
• Roewer, 1960 (Iran, Afghanistan)
• Bosselaers, 1999 (Jordan)
• Pocock, 1900 (India)
• Schenkel, 1936 (China, Korea)
• (C. L. Koch, 1843) (Palearctic)
• Patel, 1987 (India)
• Dyal, 1935 (Pakistan)
• (Blackwall, 1868) (Canary Is., Cape Verde Is.)
• Simon, 1910 (South Africa)
• Simon, 1887 (South Africa)
• Simon, 1910 (South Africa)
• Tucker, 1920 (Namibia, South Africa)
• (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) (Israel)
• Benoit, 1966 (Sudan, Somalia, Yemen)
• Rheims, Santos & Harten, 2007 (Turkey, Israel, Iran, Yemen, India)

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