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Uroctea Temporal range:
Female U. quinquenotata
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  23 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

As of October 2025, 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