Cladomelea
Genus of spiders
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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]
| Cladomelea | |
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| female C. longipes | |
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| female C. debeeri | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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) | |
| Species | |
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4, see text | |
Species
As of September 2025[update], this genus includes four species:[1]
C. akermani
C. debeeri
C. longipes
- Cladomelea akermani Hewitt, 1923 – South Africa
- Cladomelea debeeri Roff & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2004 – South Africa
- Cladomelea longipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – Cameroon, DR Congo, Zimbabwe, South Africa (type species)
- Cladomelea ornata Hirst, 1907 – Central Africa