Genus Selenocosmiinae

Old World 4 species

Not a genus: the subfamily holding the Asian and Australasian whistlers, Selenocosmia, Phlogius, Lyrognathus and their relatives, and a key at this rank means an earth tiger whose genus nobody has claimed.

Material here earns the lineage's full caution: fossorial, fast, defensive, stridulating in many forms, old world entire, venom treated as significant throughout. No handling, depth, warmth, distance.

The subfamily fragments cluster around Philippine and Vietnamese localities, several of them plausibly duplicating genus-keyed listings elsewhere, which makes the cross-search the practical content of this page. Rank-level keys resolve by splitting, price blind until they do, and this bucket is where the Asian trade's unfinished taxonomy pools.

Species
4
Live Listings
8
Family Typical Index
$35
median typical advertised price
Entry Price
$25
lowest ask now

The line on each tile: lowest ask per day.

Rarity BETA Rarity is supply, and only supply: the tier is how many sellers have ever carried a species, and for a single seller, how many separate listings. Price is not part of it, and neither is how recently it appeared. Tiers are given to tarantula species only.