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Genus: Uroctea Dufour, 1820 | Family: Oecobiidae Blackwall, 1862

Uroctea sudanensis Benoit, 1966

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006003

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Distribution: Sudan, Somalia, Yemen

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Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (120834) - (Benoit, 1966b)

Taxonomic References

Uroctea sudanensis Benoit, 1966b: 193, f. 2 (Dm) Original description

Uroctea sudanensis Rheims, Santos & van Harten, 2007: 63, f. 3-4, 9-10 (m)

Uroctea sudanensis Siyam et al., 2026: 704, f. 7-9 (m)

References

Benoit, P. L. G. (1966b). Contribution à la connaissance des Urocteidae africains (Aranea-Labidogn.). Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 102: 191-195. -- Show included taxa

Rheims, C. A., Santos, A. J. & Harten, A. van (2007). The spider genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 (Araneae: Oecobiidae) in Yemen. Zootaxa 1406: 61-68. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1406.1.7 -- Show included taxa

Siyam, M., Dunlop, J. A., Jäger, P. & El-Hennawy, H. K. (2026). New spider species records, and new distributional records, from the Republic of Sudan (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 20(5): 699-708. doi: 10.13156/arac.2026.20.5.9 -- Show included taxa

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GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-07-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Siyam et al., 2026