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title: "Social Huntsman Spider"
description: "Delena cancerides — Insekten & Spinnen. Delena cancerides, the communal huntsman, flat huntsman or social huntsman, is a large, brown huntsman spider native to Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/social-huntsman-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Social Huntsman Spider

> Delena cancerides — Insekten & Spinnen. Delena cancerides, the communal huntsman, flat huntsman or social huntsman, is a large, brown huntsman spider native to Australia.

- Scientific name: *Delena cancerides*
- Category: `insects` (Insekten & Spinnen)
- Habitats: `urban` (Stadt & Garten)
- iNaturalist observations: 3422
- Wikidata: [Q1613086](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1613086)
- iNaturalist taxon: [388489](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/388489)

## Names

- en: Social Huntsman Spider

## Countries with the most observations

AU (2689)

## Summary

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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delena_cancerides

## Photo

![Social Huntsman Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/social-huntsman-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Joshua S. Martin · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/244294737

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/social-huntsman-spider?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).