{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{For|Ealdorman of Devon|Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Ordgarius sexspinosus by Siddharth Kulkarni.jpg |image_caption = Female ''Ordgarius sexspinosus'' | taxon = Ordgarius | authority = Keyserling, 1886<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''O. monstrosus'' | type_species_authority = Keyserling, 1886 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 12, see text | synonyms = *''Dicrostichus'' <small>Simon, 1895</small><ref name=Davi1988>{{cite journal| last=Davies| first=V. T.| year=1988| title=An illustrated guide to the genera of orb-weaving spiders in Australia| journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum| volume=25| page=316}}</ref> *''Euglyptila'' <small>Simon, 1909</small><ref name=Levi2003>{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=2003| title=The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae)| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| volume=157| page=376}}</ref> *''Notocentria'' <small>Thorell, 1894</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE /> }}
'''''Ordgarius''''' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1886.<ref name=Keys1886>{{cite book| last=Keyserling| first=E.| year=1886| title=Die Arachniden Australiens}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Levi03>{{Citation |mode=cs1 |last1=Levi |first1=H.W. |date=2003 |title=The bolas spiders of the genus ''Mastophora'' (Araneae: Araneidae) |journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology |volume=157 |pages=309–382 }}</ref>
==Species== {{as of|2019|04}} it contains twelve species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Ordgarius Keyserling, 1886| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-14| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/371| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> *''Ordgarius acanthonotus'' <small>(Simon, 1909)</small> – Vietnam *''Ordgarius bicolor'' <small>Pocock, 1899</small> – Papua New Guinea (New Britain) *''Ordgarius clypeatus'' <small>Simon, 1897</small> – Indonesia (Ambon) *''Ordgarius ephippiatus'' <small>Thorell, 1898</small> – Myanmar *''Ordgarius furcatus'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)</small> – Australia (New South Wales) **''Ordgarius f. distinctus'' <small>(Rainbow, 1900)</small> – Australia (New South Wales) *''Ordgarius hexaspinus'' <small>Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2004</small> – India *''Ordgarius hobsoni'' <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)</small> – India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan *''Ordgarius magnificus'' <small>(Rainbow, 1897)</small> – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales) *''Ordgarius monstrosus'' <small>Keyserling, 1886</small> – Australia (Queensland) *''Ordgarius pustulosus'' <small>Thorell, 1897</small> – Indonesia (Java) *''Ordgarius sexspinosus'' <small>(Thorell, 1894)</small> – India to Japan, Indonesia
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Category:Araneidae Category:Araneidae genera Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Spiders of Australia Category:Taxa named by Eugen von Keyserling
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