Delena cancerides: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Sparassidae
- Genus
- Delena
- Species
- Delena cancerides
- Scientific Name
- Delena cancerides
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Delena cancerides
Delena cancerides, the communal huntsman, flat huntsman or social huntsman, is a large, brown huntsman spider native to Australia. It has been introduced to New Zealand, where it is sometimes known as the Avondale spider. This was the species used in the Australian movie Napoleon and widely in Arachnophobia, and all films depict them as having a deadly venomous bite, but they are generally considered harmless to humans in real-life. It was first described by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837.
...Delena cancerides in languages:
- English
- Avondale Spider
- English
- Social Huntsman Spider
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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