''Uloborus'' is a spider

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in the family Uloboridae with 80 described species. Most species occur in the tropics and subtropics, with only few species in northern America and Europe. The chelicerae of these cribellate spiders are robust, but, as all Uloboridae, there are no venom glands. Eight small eyes are present.

Species

* '' Uloborus albescens'' O. P-Cambridge, 1885 (

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) * '' Uloborus albofasciatus'' Chrysanthus, 1967 (

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

) * '' Uloborus albolineatus'' Mello-Leitão, 1941 (

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) * '' Uloborus ater'' Mello-Leitão, 1917 (

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

) * '' Uloborus aureus'' Vinson, 1863 (

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

) * '' Uloborus barbipes'' L. Koch, 1872 (

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) * '' Uloborus berlandi'' Roewer, 1951 (

Guinea Guinea ( ),, fuf, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫, italic=no, Gine, wo, Gine, nqo, ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫, bm, Gine officially the Republic of Guinea (french: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the we ...

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Uloborus biconicus ''Uloborus'' is a spider genus in the family Uloboridae with 80 described species. Most species occur in the tropics and subtropics, with only few species in northern America and Europe. The chelicerae of these cribellate spiders are robust, ...

'' Yin & Hu, 2012 (China) * '' Uloborus bigibbosus'' Simon, 1905 (India) * '' Uloborus bispiralis'' Opell, 1982 (New Guinea) * '' Uloborus campestratus'' Simon, 1893 (United States to

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Uloborus canescens ''Uloborus'' is a spider genus in the family Uloboridae with 80 described species. Most species occur in the tropics and subtropics, with only few species in northern America and Europe. The chelicerae of these cribellate spiders are robust, ...

C. L. Koch Carl Ludwig Koch (21 September 1778 – 23 August 1857) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was responsible for classifying a great number of spiders, including the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula and common house spider. He was born ...

, 1844 (

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

) * '' Uloborus canus'' Macleay, 1827 (Australia) * '' Uloborus cellarius'' Yin & Yan, 2012 (China) * ''

Uloborus chinmoyiae ''Uloborus'' is a spider genus in the family Uloboridae with 80 described species. Most species occur in the tropics and subtropics, with only few species in northern America and Europe. The chelicerae of these cribellate spiders are robust, but ...

'' Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013 (Bangladesh) * ''

Uloborus conus ''Uloborus'' is a spider genus in the family Uloboridae with 80 described species. Most species occur in the tropics and subtropics, with only few species in northern America and Europe. The chelicerae of these cribellate spiders are robust, but ...

'' Opell, 1982 (New Guinea) * '' Uloborus crucifaciens'' Hingston, 1927 (

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) * '' Uloborus cubicus'' ( Thorell, 1898) (Myanmar) * '' Uloborus danolius'' Tikader, 1969 (India,

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Uloborus diversus ''Uloborus diversus'' is a species of cribellate orb weaver in the spider family Uloboridae Uloboridae is a family of non-venomous spiders, known as cribellate orb weavers or hackled orb weavers. Their lack of venom glands is a secondarily evol ...

'' Marx, 1898 (USA, Mexico) * '' Uloborus eberhardi'' Opell, 1981 (

Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...

) * '' Uloborus elongatus'' Opell, 1982 (Argentina) * '' Uloborus emarginatus'' Kulczynski, 1908 (

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...

) * '' Uloborus ferokus'' Bradoo, 1979 (India) * '' Uloborus filidentatus'' Hingston, 1932 (

Guyana Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...

) * '' Uloborus filifaciens'' Hingston, 1927 (

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) * '' Uloborus filinodatus'' Hingston, 1932 (Guyana) * '' Uloborus formosus'' Marx, 1898 (Mexico) * '' Uloborus furunculus'' Simon, 1906 (India) * '' Uloborus gilvus'' ( Blackwall, 1870) (Italy,

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) * '' Uloborus glomosus'' ( Walckenaer, 1842) (USA, Canada) * '' Uloborus guangxiensis'' Zhu, Sha & Chen, 1989 (China) * '' Uloborus humeralis'' Hasselt, 1882 (Myanmar,

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, Java) ** '' Uloborus humeralis marginatus'' Kulczyński, 1908 (Java) * '' Uloborus inaequalis'' Kulczyński, 1908 (New Guinea) * '' Uloborus jabalpurensis'' Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001 (India) * '' Uloborus jarrei'' Berland & Millot, 1940 (Guinea) * '' Uloborus kerevatensis'' Opell, 1991 (New Guinea) * '' Uloborus khasiensis'' Tikader, 1969 (India) * '' Uloborus krishnae'' Tikader, 1970 (India, Nicobar Is.) * '' Uloborus leucosagma'' Thorell, 1895 (Myanmar) * '' Uloborus limbatus'' Thorell, 1895 (Myanmar) * '' Uloborus llastay'' Grismado, 2002 (Argentina) * '' Uloborus lugubris'' (Thorell, 1895) (Myanmar) * '' Uloborus metae'' Opell, 1981 (Colombia) * '' Uloborus minutus'' Mello-Leitão, 1915 (Brazil) * '' Uloborus modestus'' Thorell, 1891 (Nicobar Is.) * '' Uloborus montifer'' Marples, 1955 (

Samoa Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono Island, Manono an ...

) * '' Uloborus niger'' Mello-Leitão, 1917 (Brazil) * '' Uloborus oculatus'' Kulczyński, 1908 (

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

) * '' Uloborus parvulus'' Schmidt, 1976 (

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...

) * '' Uloborus penicillatoides'' Xian et al., 1997 (China) * '' Uloborus pictus'' Thorell, 1898 (Myanmar) * '' Uloborus pinnipes'' Thorell, 1877 (

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

) * '' Uloborus planipedius'' Simon, 1896 (East,

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

) * '' Uloborus plumipes'' Lucas, 1846 (

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) ** '' Uloborus plumipes javanus'' Kulczyński, 1908 (Java) * '' Uloborus plumosus'' Schmidt, 1956 (Guinea) * '' Uloborus pteropus'' (Thorell, 1887) (Myanmar) * '' Uloborus rufus'' Schmidt & Krause, 1995 (Cape Verde Is.) * '' Uloborus scutifaciens'' Hingston, 1927 (Myanmar) * '' Uloborus segregatus''

Gertsch Willis John Gertsch (October 4, 1906 – December 12, 1998) was an American arachnologist. He described over 1,000 species of spiders, scorpions, and other arachnids, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider. Gertsch was born ...

, 1936 (USA to Colombia) * '' Uloborus sexfasciatus'' Simon, 1893 (

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

) * '' Uloborus shendurneyensis'' Asima, Sudhikumar & Prasad, 2021 (India) * '' Uloborus spelaeus'' Bristowe, 1952 (

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

) * '' Uloborus strandi'' (Caporiacco, 1940) (

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

) * '' Uloborus tenuissimus'' L. Koch, 1872 (Samoa) * '' Uloborus tetramaculatus'' Mello-Leitão, 1940 (Brazil) * '' Uloborus trifasciatus'' Thorell, 1890 (

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) * '' Uloborus trilineatus'' Keyserling, 1883 (Mexico to

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

) * '' Uloborus umboniger'' Kulczyński, 1908 (

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

) * '' Uloborus undulatus'' Thorell, 1878 (Java to New Guinea) ** '' Uloborus undulatus indicus'' Kulczyński, 1908 (Malaysia) ** '' Uloborus undulatus obscurior'' Kulczyński, 1908 (New Guinea) ** '' Uloborus undulatus pallidior'' Kulczyński, 1908 (Java to New Guinea) * '' Uloborus vanillarum'' Vinson, 1863 (Madagascar) * '' Uloborus velutinus'' Butler, 1882 (Madagascar) * '' Uloborus villosus'' Keyserling, 1881 (Colombia) * ''

Uloborus viridimicans ''Uloborus'' is a spider genus in the family Uloboridae with 80 described species. Most species occur in the tropics and subtropics, with only few species in northern America and Europe. The chelicerae of these cribellate spiders are robust, but ...

'' Simon, 1893 (Philippines) * '' Uloborus walckenaerius'' Latreille, 1806 (

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References

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