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:
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
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