Cladomelea

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Araneidae
Subfamilia: Cyrtarachninae
Tribus: Mastophorini
Genus: Cladomelea
Species: C. akermani – C. debeeri – C. longipes – C. ornata
Name

Cladomelea Simon, 1895

Type species: Cyrtarachne longipes Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, 1877
References
Additional references

Roff, J. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. 2004: Description of a new species of Cladomelea bolas-spider from South Africa, with notes on its behaviour (Araneae: Araneidae). African invertebrates 45: 1–6. Reference page.
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

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

"Gen. Cladomelea Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
Simon, E (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
Levi, H.W. (2003). "The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 157: 309–382.