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