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Genus: Deliochus Simon, 1894 | Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Deliochus humilis (L. Koch, 1867)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014940

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Described:

Distribution: Australia, Papua New Guinea

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Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany 1f, 1juv - (Kallal & Hormiga, 2018b)
Holotype: Australian Museum, Sydney (AMS), Australia f (holotype of Araneus favorabilis) - (Kallal & Hormiga, 2018b)

Taxonomic References

Theridion humile L. Koch, 1867b: 191 (Df) Original description

Epeira humilis L. Koch, 1872a: 107, pl. 9, f. 1 (f)

Araneus favorabilis Rainbow, 1916a: 103, pl. 22, f. 18-19 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:014865]

Deliochus humilis Kuntner, Coddington & Hormiga, 2008: 171, f. 12A-B (m)

Deliochus humilis Kallal & Hormiga, 2018b: 1102, f. 10B, 31A-I, 32A-G, 33A-I (mf, T from Araneus, S of Araneus favorabilis)

Deliochus humilis Kuntner et al., 2025: 13, f. 10B, S9A-G (m)

References

Kallal, R. J. & Hormiga, G. (2018b). 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(4): 1055-1141. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly014 -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1867b). Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. II. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 173-250. -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1872a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 3-7]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 105-368, pl. 8-28. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M., Coddington, J. A. & Hormiga, G. (2008). Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies. Cladistics 24(2): 147-217. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00176.x -- Show included taxa

Kuntner, M., Yu, K. P., Bedjanič, M., Gregorič, M., Turk, E., Čandek, K., Coddington, J. A., Agnarsson, I., Starrett, J. & Bond, J. E. (2025). Osmooka, a new spider genus from Madagascar: a surprising relative of the Australian fauna (Araneae: Paraplectanoididae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 9(6, ixaf050): 1-26, Suppl. 20 pp. doi: 10.1093/isd/ixaf050 -- Show included taxa

Rainbow, W. J. (1916a). Arachnida from northern Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 11: 33-64, 79-119, pl. 14-16, 21-23. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-01-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Kuntner et al., 2025
2018-12-09	Species distribution update	Kallal & Hormiga, 2018b	Old value
2018-12-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Kallal & Hormiga, 2018b
2018-12-09	Species synonymy	Kallal & Hormiga, 2018b		Deliochus favorabilis synonymized with Deliochus humilis
2018-12-09	Species transferred to new genus	Kallal & Hormiga, 2018b		Species transferred from Araneus to Deliochus