Selenocosmiinae

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Selenocosmiinae
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Selenocosmia stirlingi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Clade: Avicularioidea
Family: Theraphosidae
Subfamily: Selenocosmiinae
Simon, 1889

The Selenocosmiinae [1] are a subfamily of tarantulas (Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae) found throughout South-East Asia and Australia. This subfamily is defined by the presence of a lyra on the maxillae and strikers on the chelicerae, allowing these spiders to stridulate and produce a "hissing" sound. However some species within Phlogiellus may have secondary lost their lyra but retain their strikers. The monophyly of the subfamily has been only tested using genetic data with a handful of genera or species in a few studies. [2] [3] However, these studies found genera that had been previously placed in this subfamily were actual their own separate subfamily ( Poecilotheria ) and that Selenocosmiinae is most closely related to the Indian Thrigmopoeinae. As of 2021, Selenocosmiinae contains 11 genera.

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Genera [4]

References

  1. West RC, Nunn SC, Hogg S (2012) A new tarantula genus, Psednocnemis, from West Malaysia (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with cladistic analyses and biogeography of Selenocosmiinae Simon 1889. Zootaxa 3299 1 43; reference page
  2. Lüddecke, Tim; Krehenwinkel, Henrik; Canning, Gregory; Glaw, Frank; Longhorn, Stuart J.; Tänzler, René; Wendt, Ingo; Vences, Miguel (2018-02-01). "Discovering the silk road: Nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data resolve the phylogenetic relationships among theraphosid spider subfamilies" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 119: 63–70. Bibcode:2018MolPE.119...63L. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.015. ISSN   1055-7903. PMID   29104141.
  3. Foley, Saoirse; Lüddecke, Tim; Cheng, Dong-Qiang; Krehenwinkel, Henrik; Künzel, Sven; Longhorn, Stuart J.; Wendt, Ingo; von Wirth, Volker; Tänzler, Rene; Vences, Miguel; Piel, William H. (2019-11-01). "Tarantula phylogenomics: A robust phylogeny of deep theraphosid clades inferred from transcriptome data sheds light on the prickly issue of urticating setae evolution" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 140: 106573. Bibcode:2019MolPE.14006573F. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106573. ISSN   1055-7903. PMID   31374259. S2CID   199389268.
  4. "Selenocosmiinae". www.tarantupedia.com. Retrieved 2023-09-30.
  5. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
  6. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
  7. Simon, Eugène (1892). Histoire naturelle des araignées (2. éd. ed.). Paris: Roret.