''Uloborus'' is a spider

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

in the 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 evolved trait. Instead, they wrap their prey thoroughly in silk, cover it in regurgitated digestive ...

with 80 described species. Most species occur in the tropics and subtropics, with only few species in northern America and Europe. The

chelicerae The chelicerae () are the mouthparts of the subphylum Chelicerata, an arthropod group that includes arachnids, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders. Commonly referred to as " jaws", chelicerae may be shaped as either articulated fangs, or similarl ...

of these

cribellate Cribellum literally means "little sieve", and in biology the term generally applies to anatomical structures in the form of tiny perforated plates. In certain groups of diatoms it refers to microscopically punctured regions of the frustule, or o ...

spiders are robust, but, as all Uloboridae, there are no venom glands. Eight small eyes are present.

Species

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

Yarkand Yarkant County,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also Shache County,, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency also transliterated from Uyghur as Yakan County, is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ...

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

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torres ...

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

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest ...

) * '' 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 Afric ...

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

Queensland ) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , establishe ...

) * '' 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 ...

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

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

) * '' Uloborus canescens'' C. L. Koch, 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 ...

) * '' Uloborus canus'' Macleay, 1827 (Australia) * '' Uloborus cellarius'' Yin & Yan, 2012 (China) * '' Uloborus chinmoyiae'' Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2013 (Bangladesh) * '' Uloborus conus'' Opell, 1982 (New Guinea) * '' Uloborus crucifaciens'' Hingston, 1927 (

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

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

Nicobar Islands The Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean. They are located in Southeast Asia, northwest of Aceh on Sumatra, and separated from Thailand to the east by the Andaman Sea. Located southeast of the Indian ...

) * '' Uloborus diversus'' 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 mo ...

) * '' 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 (

Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands () are an archipelago in the northeastern Indian Ocean about southwest off the coasts of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Region. Together with the Nicobar Islands to their south, the Andamans serve as a maritime boundary between t ...

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

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders wi ...

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

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

, 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 and Apolima); ...

) * '' 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, bor ...

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

Canary Islands The Canary Islands (; es, :es:Canarias, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to ...

) * '' 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 ...

) * '' 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 coun ...

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

Old World The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe , after Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas. It is used to contrast the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia, which were previously thought of by thei ...

) ** '' 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, 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 federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Mal ...

) * '' 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 (

Sunda Islands The Sunda Islands ( id, Kepulauan Sunda) are a archipelago , group of islands in the Malay Archipelago.Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). wikisource:1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Sunda_Islands, "Sunda Islands" . ''Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Ed ...

) * '' 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 t ...

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

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sib ...

)

References

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