Cladomelea
Cladomelea | |
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C. debeeri | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Araneidae |
Subfamily: | Cyrtarachninae s.l. |
Genus: | Cladomelea Simon, 1895[1] |
Type species | |
(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)
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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 it contains four species:[1]
- Cladomelea akermani Hewitt, 1923 – South Africa
- Cladomelea debeeri Roff & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2004 – South Africa
- (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – Congo
- Hirst, 1907 – Central Africa
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Gen. Cladomelea Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ^ Simon, E. 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.
Categories:
- Araneidae
- Araneomorphae genera
- Spiders of Africa
- Taxa named by Eugène Simon
- Araneidae stubs