Genus of spiders
Ordgarius genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1886.[ 4] 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]
Species
As of April 2019[update] [ 1]
Ordgarius acanthonotus (Simon , 1909) – VietnamOrdgarius bicolor Pocock , 1899Ordgarius clypeatus Simon, 1897 – Indonesia (Ambon)Ordgarius ephippiatus Thorell , 1898Ordgarius furcatus (O. Pickard-Cambridge , 1877) – Australia (New South Wales)
Ordgarius hexaspinus Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2004 – IndiaOrdgarius hobsoni (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – India, Sri Lanka, China, JapanOrdgarius 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
^ 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.
