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. The name Neoscona was derived from the Greek νέω, meaning "spin", and σχοῖνος, meaning "reed". They have a mostly pantropical distribution and one species, Neoscona adianta, has a palearctic distribution. The genus has more than 100 species (see below), eight of which can be found in the United States and Canada as of April 2019.

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