Genus Deliochus Simon, 1894

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Regional Maps

• Deliochus Simon, E. 1894. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris Vol. 1 pp. 489-760. [749].

  Type species:

   Meta zelivira Keyserling, 1887 by original designation.

Introduction

Genus transferred to the Araneidae from the Tetragnathidae by Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga (2008)

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Jarrah Forest (JF), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian West (TWE), Warren (WAR) ; NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE) ; NSW, Qld, Tas, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Victorian Midlands (VM)

General References

Kallal, R.J. & Hormiga, G. 2018. Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian leaf-curling orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae: Zygiellinae), with a comparative analysis of retreat evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184: 1-87 [52]

Kuntner, M., Coddington J.A. & Hormiga, G. 2008. Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies. Cladistics 24: 147-217 [190]

History of changes