Delena

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

Genus of spiders

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]

* Eodelena Hogg, 1903[2]

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]

* List of Sparassidae species

## References[edit]

1. ^ 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.
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.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q3021539
* Wikispecies: Delena
* ADW: Delena
* AFD: Delena
* BioLib: 603627
* BOLD: 290188
* EoL: 113818
* GBIF: 2161339
* iNaturalist: 376158
* IRMNG: 1361330
* ITIS: 871979
* NCBI: 658993
* NZOR: 050ff2f1-4014-4a97-9d7f-b5abd4f68c26
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02532

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