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Nuctenea
Nuctenea
is
a genus
of
orb-weaver spiders
first described by
Eugène Simon
in
1895
. Its most
familiar
member is the
Walnut Orb-Weaver Spider
,
N. umbratica
.
Species
it
contains
only three
species
.
Nuctenea
cedrorum
—
Algeria
Nuctenea
silvicultrix
—
Palearctic
Nuctenea umbratica
—
Europe
to
Azerbaijan