Ordgarius
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Ordgarius is a genus of Australasian bolas spiders
in the family Araneidae. Ordgar or Ordgarius is also an Anglo-Saxon masculine personal name (borne for example by Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon
, 10th century).
Bolas spiders
Bolas Spiders are unusual orb-weaver spiders that do not spin the typical web. Instead, they hunt by using a sticky 'capture blob' of silk on the end of a line, known as a 'bolas'. By swinging the bolas at flying male moths or moth flies nearby, the spider may snag its prey rather like a fisherman...
in the family Araneidae. Ordgar or Ordgarius is also an Anglo-Saxon masculine personal name (borne for example by Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon
Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon
Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon was an English West Country landowner notable as a presumed close advisor of Edgar the Peaceful, king of England, and as the father of Ælfthryth, the king's third wife and mother of Æthelred the Unready...
, 10th century).
Species
- Ordgarius acanthonotus (Simon, 1909) (Vietnam)
- Ordgarius bicolor Pocock, 1899 (New Britain)
- Ordgarius clypeatus Simon, 1897 (Amboina)
- Ordgarius ephippiatus Thorell, 1898 (Myanmar)
- Ordgarius furcatus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1877) (New South Wales)
- Ordgarius furcatus distinctus (Rainbow, 1900) (New South Wales)
- Ordgarius hexaspinus Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2005 (India)
- Ordgarius hobsoni (O. P.-Cambridge, 1877) (India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan)
- Ordgarius magnificusOrdgarius magnificusOrdgarius magnificus, the Magnificent spider, is a bolas spider in the family Araneidae. It is endemic to forests along the Australian east coast.-Description:Females are up to 14mm long and almost as wide; males reach only 2mm...
(RainbowWilliam Joseph RainbowWilliam Joseph Rainbow was an entomologist and arachnologist whose work includes the first catalogue of Australian spiders.-Life:...
, 1897) (Queensland, New South Wales) - Ordgarius monstrosus Keyserling, 1886 (Queensland)
- Ordgarius pustulosus Thorell, 1897 (Java)
- Ordgarius sexspinosus (Thorell, 1894) (India to Japan, Indonesia)