Ordgarius is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1886. 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:

• 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

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