Deliochus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Araneidae
Genus: Deliochus
Species: D. pulcher – D. zelivira
Name

Deliochus Simon, 1894

Type species: Deliochus zelivira Keyserling, 1887
References

Kuntner, M., J. A. Coddington & G. Hormiga. 2008. Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies. Cladistics 24: 190. [1]
Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [2]

Vernacular names
English: Deliochus

Deliochus is a genus of South Pacific orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.[2]
Species

As of April 2019 it contains five species:[1]

Deliochus humilis (L. Koch, 1867) – Australia, Papua New Guinea
Deliochus idoneus (Keyserling, 1887) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia)
Deliochus pulchra Rainbow, 1916 – Australia (Queensland)
Deliochus p. melania Rainbow, 1916 – Australia (Queensland)
Deliochus zelivira (Keyserling, 1887) – Australia, Tasmania

References

"Gen. Deliochus Simon, 1894". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.