16, see text Kaira, sometimes called frilled orbweavers,[3] is a mostly neotropical genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1889.

[4] It includes sixteen described species that occur from South America up to the southern and eastern USA.

[5] They spin small webs from which they hang upside down and attract male moths that fly into a basket formed by their legs.

[5] Kaira specimens are uncommon in arachnologist collections, and the females of different species are difficult to separate.

When a moth flies into the basket formed by the spider's legs, it is clasped and bitten, and later wrapped in araneid-like fashion.