Selenocosmia

Selenocosmia
Selenocosmia stirlingi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Theraphosidae
Subfamily:	Selenocosmiinae
Genus:	Selenocosmia Ausserer, 1871
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Chilocosmia Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992 Phlogius Simon, 1887 Selenopelma Schmidt & Krause, 1995

Selenocosmia is a genus of spiders in the family Theraphosidae (tarantulas).

Species

As of May 2016, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:

• Selenocosmia arndsti (Schmidt & von Wirth, 1991) – New Guinea
• Selenocosmia aruana Strand, 1911 – Aru Is.
• Selenocosmia barensteinerae (Schmidt, Hettegger & Matthes, 2010) – Borneo
• Selenocosmia compta Kulczyński, 1911 – New Guinea
• Selenocosmia crassipes (L. Koch, 1874) – Queensland
• Selenocosmia deliana Strand, 1913 – Sumatra
• Selenocosmia effera (Simon, 1891) – Moluccas
• 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) (type species) – Malaysia to Sulawesi
• Selenocosmia jiafu Zhu & Zhang, 2008 – China, Laos
• 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 Kulczyński, 1908 – New Guinea
• Selenocosmia peerboomi (Schmidt, 1999) – Philippines
• Selenocosmia pritami Dyal, 1935 – Pakistan
• Selenocosmia raciborskii Kulczyński, 1908 – Java
• Selenocosmia samarae (Giltay, 1935) – Philippines
• Selenocosmia similis Kulczyński, 1911 – New Guinea
• Selenocosmia stirlingi Hogg, 1901 – Australia
• 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

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