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
it contains twelve species:
- Ordgarius acanthonotus <small>(Simon, 1909)</small> â Vietnam
- Ordgarius bicolor <small>Pocock, 1899</small> â Papua New Guinea (New Britain)
- Ordgarius clypeatus <small>Simon, 1897</small> â Indonesia (Ambon)
- Ordgarius ephippiatus <small>Thorell, 1898</small> â Myanmar
- Ordgarius furcatus <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)</small> â Australia (New South Wales)
- Ordgarius f. distinctus <small>(Rainbow, 1900)</small> â Australia (New South Wales)
- Ordgarius hexaspinus <small>Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2004</small> â India
- Ordgarius hobsoni <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)</small> â India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan
- Ordgarius magnificus <small>(Rainbow, 1897)</small> â Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Ordgarius monstrosus <small>Keyserling, 1886</small> â Australia (Queensland)
- Ordgarius pustulosus <small>Thorell, 1897</small> â Indonesia (Java)
- Ordgarius sexspinosus <small>(Thorell, 1894)</small> â India to Japan, Indonesia
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