Cladomelea
Sign in to saveCladomelea is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895. 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.
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- Specimen records
- 2
- Family
- Araneidae
- Collections
- ARC-PPRI, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
- Recorded in
- South Africa
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Cladomelea is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895. 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== , this genus includes four species:
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