Mangrovia

(after Framenau and Castanheira, 2022): Mangrovia is most similar to Neoscona, in particular with respect to the male genitalia. However, Mangrovia males have only one pedipalp patellar spine, Neoscona has two. Mangrovia species are highly sexually size-dimorphic, with females 3–5 times larger than males, but sexual size dimorphism is much less pronounced in Neoscona species, where males are almost as large as females. In addition, males of Neoscona have distinctly enlarged tibiae on the second leg with numerous and strong spines, characters lacking in the small Mangrovia males. The abdomen of female Mangrovia are generally uniformly lightly coloured, whereas they have a folium pattern in Neoscona.

Mangrovia inhabits coastal or riparian habitats in the northern half of Australia.