Genus
Neoscona (Spotted orbweavers)
Neoscona oaxacensis. Photo: (c) Michael Schmidt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Neoscona, known as spotted orb-weavers and barn spiders, is a genus of orb-weaver spiders (Araneidae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1895 to separate these from other araneids in the now obsolete genus Epeira. They have a mostly pantropical distribution and one species, Neoscona adianta, has a palearctic distribution. As of April 2019 there are eight species that can be found in the United States and Canada:
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