Genus Delena Walckenaer, 1833

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• Delena Walckenaer, C.A. 1833. Mémoire sur une nouvelle classification des Aranédes. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2: 414-446 [438, 441].

  Type species:

   Delena cancerides Walckenaer, 1837 by original designation.
• Eodelena Hogg, H.R. 1903. On the Australiasian spiders of the subfamily Sparassinae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1902(2): 414-466 [464].

  Type species:

   Eodelena speneri Hogg, 1903 by original designation, see 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: 895-905.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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: 895-905

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic, WA: South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; ACT, NSW, Tas, WA: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA) ; NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Cobar Peneplain (CP) ; SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB) ; Tas: King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE) ; Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; WA: Coolgardie (COO), Esperance Plains (ESP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Warren (WAR)

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