Biology:Cladomelea
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Cladomelea | |
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| C. debeeri | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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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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
- Cladomelea longipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – Congo
- Cladomelea ornata Hirst, 1907 – Central Africa
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Cladomelea Simon, 1895". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/294. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ↑ Simon, E (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. https://archive.org/details/histoirenaturel31unkngoog.
- ↑ Levi, H.W. (2003), "The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae)", Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157: 309–382
Wikidata ☰ Q2974939 entry
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