Ordgarius is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1886.[4] Adult females of the genus are bolas spiders, capturing their prey with one or more sticky drops at the end of a single line of silk rather than in a web. Males and juvenile females capture their prey directly with their legs.[5]
| Ordgarius | |
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| Female Ordgarius sexspinosus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyrtarachninae s.l. |
| Genus: | Ordgarius Keyserling, 1886[1] |
| Type species | |
| O. monstrosus Keyserling, 1886
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs of April 2019[update] it contains twelve species:[1]
- Ordgarius acanthonotus (Simon, 1909) – Vietnam
- Ordgarius bicolor Pocock, 1899 – Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
- Ordgarius clypeatus Simon, 1897 – Indonesia (Ambon)
- Ordgarius ephippiatus Thorell, 1898 – Myanmar
- Ordgarius furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – Australia (New South Wales)
- Ordgarius f. distinctus (Rainbow, 1900) – Australia (New South Wales)
- Ordgarius hexaspinus Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2004 – India
- Ordgarius hobsoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan
- Ordgarius magnificus (Rainbow, 1897) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Ordgarius monstrosus Keyserling, 1886 – Australia (Queensland)
- Ordgarius pustulosus Thorell, 1897 – Indonesia (Java)
- Ordgarius sexspinosus (Thorell, 1894) – India to Japan, Indonesia
References
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Ordgarius Keyserling, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ Davies, V. T. (1988). "An illustrated guide to the genera of orb-weaving spiders in Australia". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 25: 316.
- ^ Levi, H. W. (2003). "The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 157: 376.
- ^ Keyserling, E. (1886). Die Arachniden Australiens.
- ^ Levi, H.W. (2003). "The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 157: 309–382.
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