| 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 |
| Type species | |
| O. monstrosus Keyserling, 1886 | |
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12, see text | |
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Ordgarius is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1886. 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.
Species
As of April 2019 it contains twelve species:
- 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
- ^ "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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