Ordgarius Explained

Ordgarius is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1886.^[1] 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:^[2]

• 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

Notes and References

1. Book: Keyserling, E.. 1886. Die Arachniden Australiens.
2. Gen. Ordgarius Keyserling, 1886. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-14. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.