Uloborus
Encyclopedia
Uloborus is a spider genus in the family Uloboridae with 72 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.
The chelicerae
Chelicerae
The chelicerae are mouthparts of the Chelicerata, an arthropod subphylum that includes arachnids, Merostomata , and Pycnogonida . Chelicerae are pointed appendages which are used to grasp food, and are found in place of the chewing mandibles most other arthropods have...
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-CambridgeOctavius Pickard-CambridgeThe Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS was an English clergyman and zoologist.Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth rectory, Dorset, the fifth son of Revd George Pickard, rector and squire of Bloxworth: the family changed their name to Pickard-Cambridge in 1848...
, 1885 (Yarkand) - Uloborus albofasciatus Chrysanthus, 1967 (New GuineaNew GuineaNew Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
) - Uloborus albolineatus Mello-Leitão, 1941 (ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
) - Uloborus ater Mello-Leitão, 1917 (BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
) - Uloborus aureus Vinson, 1863 (MadagascarMadagascarThe Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...
) - Uloborus barbipes L. Koch, 1872 (QueenslandQueenslandQueensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
) - Uloborus berlandi RoewerCarl Friedrich RoewerCarl Friedrich Roewer was a German arachnologist. He concentrated on harvestmen, where he described almost a third of today's known species, but also almost 700 taxa of spiders and numerous Solifugae....
, 1951 (GuineaGuineaGuinea , officially the Republic of Guinea , is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea , it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbour Guinea-Bissau. Guinea is divided into eight administrative regions and subdivided into thirty-three prefectures...
) - Uloborus bigibbosus SimonEugène SimonEugène Simon was a French arachnologist. His many taxonomic contributions include categorizing and naming many spiders, as well as creating genera such as Anelosimus, Psellocoptus and Phlogius....
, 1905 (IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
) - Uloborus bispiralis Opell, 1982 (New Guinea)
- Uloborus campestratus Simon, 1893 (USA to VenezuelaVenezuelaVenezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
) - Uloborus canescens C. L. KochCarl Ludwig KochCarl Ludwig Koch 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 in Kusel, Germany and died in Nuremberg, Germany.Carl Ludwig Koch was an inspector of water...
, 1844 (ColombiaColombiaColombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
) - Uloborus canus MacleayAlexander MacleayHon. Alexander Macleay MLC FLS FRS was a leading member of the Linnean Society and a fellow of the Royal Society.Macleay was born on Ross-shire, Scotland, eldest son of William Macleay, provost of Wick...
, 1827 (AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
) - Uloborus conus Opell, 1982 (New Guinea)
- Uloborus crucifaciens Hingston, 1927 (MyanmarMyanmarBurma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
) - Uloborus cubicus (Thorell, 1898) (Myanmar)
- Uloborus danolius Tikader, 1969 (India, Nicobar IslandsNicobar IslandsThe Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean...
) - Uloborus diversus Marx, 1898 (USA, MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
) - Uloborus eberhardi Opell, 1981 (Costa RicaCosta RicaCosta Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
) - Uloborus elongatus Opell, 1982 (Argentina)
- Uloborus emarginatus Kulczynski, 1908 (JavaJavaJava is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...
) - Uloborus ferokus Bradoo, 1979 (India)
- Uloborus filidentatus Hingston, 1932 (GuyanaGuyanaGuyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
) - Uloborus filifaciens Hingston, 1927 (Andaman IslandsAndaman IslandsThe Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal between India to the west, and Burma , to the north and east...
) - Uloborus filinodatus Hingston, 1932 (Guyana)
- Uloborus formosus Marx, 1898 (Mexico)
- Uloborus furunculus Simon, 1906 (India)
- Uloborus georgicus Mcheidze, 1997 (GeorgiaGeorgia (country)Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...
) - Uloborus gilvus (BlackwallJohn BlackwallJohn Blackwall was a British naturalist.Blackwall lived at Hendre House near Llanrwst in north Wales from 1833 until his death...
, 1870) (ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, GreeceGreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
) - Uloborus glomosus (WalckenaerCharles Athanase WalckenaerBaron Charles Athanase Walckenaer was a French civil servant and scientist.-Biography:Walckenaer was born in Paris and studied at the universities of Oxford and Glasgow. In 1793 he was appointed head of the military transports in the Pyrenees, after which he pursued technical studies at the École...
, 1842) (USA, Canada) - Uloborus guangxiensis Zhu, Sha & Chen, 1989 (ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
) - Uloborus humeralis Hasselt, 1882 (Myanmar, SumatraSumatraSumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a population of 50,365,538...
, Java)- Uloborus humeralis marginatus Kulczyn'ski, 1908 (Java)
- Uloborus inaequalis Kulczyn'ski, 1908 (New Guinea)
- 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 (SamoaSamoaSamoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in...
) - Uloborus niger Mello-Leitão, 1917 (Brazil)
- Uloborus oculatus Kulczyn'ski, 1908 (SingaporeSingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
) - Uloborus parvulus Schmidt, 1976 (Canary IslandsCanary IslandsThe Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...
) - Uloborus penicillatoides Xian et al., 1997 (China)
- Uloborus pictus Thorell, 1898 (Myanmar)
- Uloborus pinnipes Thorell, 1877 (SulawesiSulawesiSulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...
) - Uloborus planipedius Simon, 1896 (East, South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
) - Uloborus plumipesUloborus plumipesUloborus plumipes is an Old World cribellate spider in the family Uloboridae. Common names are Feather-legged lace weaver and Garden center spider, due to its frequent occurrence in garden centers around the world....
Lucas, 1846 (Old WorldOld WorldThe Old World consists of those parts of the world known to classical antiquity and the European Middle Ages. It is used in the context of, and contrast with, the "New World" ....
)- Uloborus plumipes javanus Kulczyn'ski, 1908 (Java)
- Uloborus plumosus Schmidt, 1956 (Guinea)
- Uloborus pseudacanthus Franganillo, 1910 (PortugalPortugalPortugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
) - Uloborus pteropus (Thorell, 1887) (Myanmar)
- Uloborus rufus Schmidt & Krause, 1995 (Cape Verde Is.)
- Uloborus scutifaciens Hingston, 1927 (Myanmar)
- Uloborus segregatus GertschWillis J. GertschWillis John Gertsch was an American arachnologist. He classified a number of species, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider....
, 1936 (USA to Colombia) - Uloborus sexfasciatus Simon, 1893 (PhilippinesPhilippinesThe Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
) - Uloborus spelaeus Bristowe, 1952 (Malaysia)
- Uloborus strandi (Caporiacco, 1940) (EthiopiaEthiopiaEthiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
) - Uloborus tenuissimus L. Koch, 1872 (Samoa)
- Uloborus tetramaculatus Mello-Leitão, 1940 (Brazil)
- Uloborus trifasciatus Thorell, 1890 (Sunda IslandsSunda IslandsThe Sunda Islands are a group of islands that form part of the Malay archipelago.They are further divided into the Greater Sunda Islands and the Lesser Sunda Islands.-Administration:...
) - Uloborus trilineatus KeyserlingEugen von KeyserlingEugen von Keyserling was a German arachnologist.He was the author of Die Spinnen Amerikas, and completed Die Arachniden Australiens on behalf of Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.-External links:...
, 1883 (Mexico to ParaguayParaguayParaguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...
) - Uloborus umboniger Kulczyn'ski, 1908 (Sri LankaSri LankaSri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
) - Uloborus undulatus Thorell, 1878 (Java to New Guinea)
- Uloborus undulatus indicus Kulczyn'ski, 1908 (Malaysia)
- Uloborus undulatus obscurior Kulczyn'ski, 1908 (New Guinea)
- Uloborus undulatus pallidior Kulczyn'ski, 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 walckenaeriusUloborus walckenaeriusUloborus walckenaerius is a spider in the family Uloboridae.Females grow up to 6 mm, males up to 4 mm. It has a dark grey prosoma, covered with white hairs, leaving some dark bands uncovered. The spider lives in warm, open terrain, like heathland, and weaves horizontal cribellate webs...
Latreille, 1806 (PalearcticPalearcticThe Palearctic or Palaearctic is one of the eight ecozones dividing the Earth's surface.Physically, the Palearctic is the largest ecozone...
)