Taranucnus is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1884.

Species it contains six species, found in Europe and the United States: Taranucnus beskidicus Hirna, 2018 – Ukraine Taranucnus bihari Fage, 1931 – Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine Taranucnus carpaticus Gnelitsa, 2016 – Ukraine Taranucnus nishikii Yaginuma, 1972 – Japan Taranucnus ornithes (Barrows, 1940) – USA Taranucnus setosus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1863) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Russia (Europe to Central Siberia)

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