Australian Huntsman SpiderImage Index Huntsman and Ticks Delena cancerides Holconia immanis Isopeda brachyseta Isopedella inola Isopedella leai Neosparassus calligaster Neosparassus diana Neosparassus patellatus
The species Delena cancerides, family Sparassidae (from the huntsman group of spiders), common names include the Communal Huntsman, Flat Huntsman and Social Huntsman. It is a fairly large, brown huntsman spider that is native to Australia.
Pictured here in the Belair National Park in Adelaide Hills of South Australia, is a juvenile Delena cancerides.
Photographs © Marianne Broug
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Infraorder: Entelegynae
- Superfamily: Sparassoidea
- Family: Sparassidae
- Subfamily: Deleninae
- Genus: Delena
- Species: Delena cancerides
Footnote & References
- Delena cancerides (in the Belair National Park), Photographs © Marianne Broug, Marianne Broug photography, https://www.mariannebrougphotography.com/
- Many thanks to Ben Kurek for ID, member of Australian spider identification page, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/australianspidereducation/
- Social Huntsman Spider (Delena cancerides), mariannebroug, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/192277935
- Genus Delena, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/376158-Delena
Australian Huntsman SpiderImage Index Huntsman and Ticks Delena cancerides Holconia immanis Isopeda brachyseta Isopedella inola Isopedella leai Neosparassus calligaster Neosparassus diana Neosparassus patellatus
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