Delena

Delena is a genus of South Pacific huntsman spiders that was first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.[3]

This article is about the genus of spiders. For other uses, see Delena (disambiguation).

Delena
Delena cancerides (female)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sparassidae
Genus: Delena
Walckenaer, 1837[1]
Type species
D. cancerides
Walckenaer, 1837
Species

11, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of September 2019 it contains eleven species, found in New Zealand and Australia:[1]

  • Delena cancerides Walckenaer, 1837 (type) – Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand
  • Delena convexa (Hirst, 1991) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Delena craboides Walckenaer, 1837 – Australia
  • Delena gloriosa (Rainbow, 1917) – Australia (South Australia)
  • Delena kosciuskoensis (Hirst, 1991) – Australia (New South Wales)
  • Delena lapidicola (Hirst, 1991) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Delena loftiensis (Hirst, 1991) – Australia (South Australia)
  • Delena melanochelis (Strand, 1913) – Australia (Victoria)
  • Delena nigrifrons (Simon, 1908) – Australia (Western Australia)
  • Delena spenceri (Hogg, 1903) – Australia (Tasmania, King Is.)
  • Delena tasmaniensis (Hirst, 1991) – Australia (Tasmania)

See also

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Delena Walckenaer, 1837". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  2. Agnarsson, I.; Rayor, L. S. (2013). "A molecular phylogeny of the Australian huntsman spiders (Sparassidae, Deleninae): implications for taxonomy and social behaviour". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 69 (3): 902. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.06.015. PMID 23831456.
  3. Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Paris 1. pp. 1–682. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095.


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