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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.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyAraneidae
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Ordgarius
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Keyserling, 1886
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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== 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

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