Uroctea
Encyclopedia
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
.
Eurasia
Eurasia is a continent or supercontinent comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia ; covering about 52,990,000 km2 or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres...
and Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
. 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
Cribellum
The cribellum is a silk spinning organ found in certain spiders. Unlike normal spinnerets, the cribellum consists of one or more plates covered in thousands of tiny spigots. These spigots produce extremely fine fibers which are combed out by the spider's calamistrum, producing silk with a wooly...
.
Species
- Uroctea compactilis L. Koch, 1878 (China, Korea, Japan)
- Uroctea concolor Simon, 1882 (Yemen)
- Uroctea durandiUroctea durandiUroctea durandi is a Mediterranean spider of about 16mm, dark with five yellow spots on its back. It lives under rocks, where it constructs an upside-down tent-like hanging web about 4 cm in diameter...
(Latreille, 1809) (Mediterranean) - Uroctea grossa Roewer, 1960 (Afghanistan)
- Uroctea hashemitorum Bosselaers, 1999 (Jordan)
- Uroctea indica Pocock, 1900 (India)
- Uroctea lesserti Schenkel, 1936 (China, Korea)
- Uroctea limbata (C. L. Koch, 1843) (Palearctic)
- Uroctea manii Patel, 1987 (India)
- Uroctea matthaii Dyal, 1935 (Pakistan)
- Uroctea paivani (Blackwall, 1868) (Canary Is., Cape Verde Is.)
- Uroctea quinquenotata Simon, 1910 (South Africa)
- Uroctea schinzi Simon, 1887 (South Africa)
- Uroctea semilimbata Simon, 1910 (South Africa)
- Uroctea septemnotata Tucker, 1920 (Namibia, South Africa)
- Uroctea septempunctata (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872) (Israel)
- Uroctea sudanensis Benoit, 1966 (Sudan, Somalia)
- Uroctea thaleri Rheims, Santos & Harten, 2007 (Yemen)