Cladomelea | |
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C. debeeri | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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 | |
C. longipes (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]
As of April 2019 [update] it contains four species: [1]
Cladomelea | |
---|---|
C. debeeri | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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 | |
C. longipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)
| |
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]
As of April 2019 [update] it contains four species: [1]