Delena is a genus of South Pacific huntsman spiders that was first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.[3]
Delena | |
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Delena cancerides (female) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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 | |
Species | |
11, see text | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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)
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