Review of the tent-web spider genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 in China, with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Oecobiidae)

This paper concerns four species of the spider genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 (Oecobiidae) from China. Two species, U. compactilis L. Koch, 1878 and U. lesserti Schenkel, 1936 are redescribed. Two new species are described here under the names U. multiprocessa Yang & Zhang sp. nov. (male only, from Batang County of Sichuan Prov.) and U. yunlingensis Yang & Zhao sp. nov. (both sexes from Yunling Mountains area of Yunnan Prov.). Color images of habitus and genitalia, SEM images of the male palps, and illustrations of epigynes of all species are provided. Specimens examined are deposited in the Institute of Entomoceutics Research, Dali University, China (DUIER) and School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, China (SWUC).