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Delena
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| Delena | |
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| Delena cancerides (female) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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
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| Species | |
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11, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Delena is a genus of South Pacific huntsman spiders that was first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.[3]
Species
[edit]As of September 2019[update] 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Paris 1. pp. 1–682. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095.
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