Delena

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]
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

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)

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.