Ordgarius

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]

For Ealdorman of Devon, see Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon.

Ordgarius
Female Ordgarius sexspinosus
Scientific classification
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
Species

12, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Dicrostichus Simon, 1895[2]
  • Euglyptila Simon, 1909[3]
  • Notocentria Thorell, 1894

Species

As of April 2019 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
  1. "Gen. Ordgarius Keyserling, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  2. Davies, V. T. (1988). "An illustrated guide to the genera of orb-weaving spiders in Australia". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 25: 316.
  3. Levi, H. W. (2003). "The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 157: 376.
  4. Keyserling, E. (1886). Die Arachniden Australiens.
  5. 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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