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Cladomelea
	C. debeeri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Subfamily:	Cyrtarachninae s.l.
Genus:	Cladomelea; Simon, 1895
Type species
	C. longipes; (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)
Species
	4, see text

Cladomelea is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.^[2] 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.^[3]

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains four species:^[1]

Cladomelea akermani Hewitt, 1923 – South Africa
Cladomelea debeeri Roff & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2004 – South Africa
Cladomelea longipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – Congo
Cladomelea ornata Hirst, 1907 – Central Africa

References

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Cladomelea Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
^ Simon, E (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
^ 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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[NMBE-1] "Gen. Cladomelea Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.

[2] Simon, E (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

[Levi03-3] 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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