Selenocosmia

Selenocosmia
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S. stirlingi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Subfamily:	Selenocosmiinae
Genus:	Selenocosmia Ausserer, 1871
Species
See text.
Diversity
39 species
Synonyms
Chilocosmia Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992 Phlogius Simon, 1887 Selenopelma Schmidt & Krause, 1995

Selenocosmia is a genus of Tarantula from Australasia.

Selenocosmia (Ausserer, 1871)
Type species: Selenocosmia javanensis

Transferred to other genera:
Selenocosmia dichromata → Orphnaecus dichromatus
Selenocosmia hainana → Haplopelma hainanum
Selenocosmia himalayana → Haplocosmia himalayana
Selenocosmia huwena (Wang, Peng & Xie, 1993) → Haplopelma schmidti
Selenocosmia imbellis → Psednocnemis imbellis
Selenocosmia nigroventris → Phoneyusa nigroventris
Selenocosmia xinping → Phlogiellus xinping

In synonymy:
Selenocosmia lucubrans and Selenocosmia vulpinus (Hogg, 1901) = Selenocosmia crassipes
Selenocosmia stalkeri (Hirst, 1907) = Selenocosmia stirlingi

• Selenocosmia arndsti (Schmidt & von Wirth, 1991) — New Guinea, the New Guinean Rusty Black Femur
• Selenocosmia aruana (Strand, 1911) — Aru Islands, the Aru Island Rusty Black
• Selenocosmia barensteinerae (Schmidt, Hettegger & Matthes, 2010) — Borneo
• Selenocosmia compta (Kulczynski, 1911) — New Guinea
• Selenocosmia crassipes (L. Koch, 1874) — Queensland, the Queensland Whistling Spider
• Selenocosmia deliana (Strand, 1913) — Sumatra
• Selenocosmia effera (Simon, 1891) — Moluccas, the [Moluccan] Spice Islands Gray
• Selenocosmia fuliginea (Thorell, 1895) — Myanmar
• Selenocosmia hasselti (Simon, 1891) — Sumatra
• Selenocosmia hirtipes (Strand, 1913) — Moluccas, New Guinea
• Selenocosmia honesta (Hirst, 1909) — New Guinea
• Selenocosmia insignis (Simon, 1890) — Sumatra
• Selenocosmia insulana (Hirst, 1909) — Sulawesi
• Selenocosmia javanensis (Walckenaer, 1837) — Malaysia to Sulawesi, the [Malaysian] Javan Yellow Knee, Malaysian Smokey Black
• Selenocosmia jiafu (Zhu & Zhang, 2008) — China
• Selenocosmia kovariki (Schmidt & Krause, 1995) — Vietnam
• Selenocosmia kulluensis (Chamberlin, 1917) — India
• Selenocosmia lanceolata (Hogg, 1914) — New Guinea
• Selenocosmia lanipes (Ausserer, 1875) — Moluccas, New Guinea
• Selenocosmia mittmannae (Barensteiner & Wehinger, 2005) — New Guinea
• Selenocosmia obscura (Hirst, 1909) — Borneo
• Selenocosmia orophila (Thorell, 1897) — Myanmar
• Selenocosmia papuana (Kulczynski, 1908) — New Guinea
• Selenocosmia peerboomi (Schmidt, 1999) — Philippines, the Filipino Gray Leg
• Selenocosmia pritami (Dyal, 1935) — Pakistan
• Selenocosmia raciborskii (Kulczynski, 1908) — Java
• Selenocosmia samarae (Giltay, 1935) — Philippines, the [Filipino] Samar Rusty Cave Spider
• Selenocosmia similis (Kulczynski, 1911) — New Guinea
• Selenocosmia stirlingi (Hogg, 1901) — Australia, the Australian Rusty Whistling Spider
• Selenocosmia strenua (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea, Queensland
• Selenocosmia strubelli (Strand, 1913) — Java, Moluccas or New Guinea
• Selenocosmia subvulpina (Strand, 1907) — Queensland
• Selenocosmia sutherlandi (Gravely, 1935) — India
• Selenocosmia tahanensis (Abraham, 1924) — Malaysia
• Selenocosmia valida (Thorell, 1881) — New Guinea
• Selenocosmia xinhuaensis (Zhu & Zhang, 2008) — China

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.