Genus: Selenocosmia AUSSERER 1871
The genus Selenocosmia are currently a very large group, comprising of several well defined smaller groups, which are concentrated in several geographic regions throughout S.E. Asia. As time permits and the taxonomists such as Dr Raven, Volker von Wirth, Borris Striffler etc. revise the Selenocosmia , it is inevitable that the group will be broken down into more appropriate generic groups and synonymised with others. In fact this is very relevant to Australia, in 2005 Raven proposed the resurrection of the genus Phlogius Koch 1874 for all known Australian Selenocosmia fauna. The Phlogius differ from the Javan/Malay Selenocosmia (the genotype being Selenocosmia javanensis Walkenaer 1837) in the structure of the lyra in the stridulating organ (In Phlogius , the lyra comprises of long paddleform setae along the lower row of the bacillate cluster. There is also a fringe of typical orange coloured setae just dorsal to the bacillae. In Selenocosmia , the lyrate patch is more rounded, without the long paddleform seatae, also a lack of the fringe of typical setae dorsal to the lyrate bristles) also spermethecal morphology obviously differs in the 2 groups (In Phlogius , the spermethecal receptacles are unilobular, in Selenocosmia , the receptacles are bilobular). Additionally, the male emboli morphology differs between the two groups as well (In Phlogius, the apical tip of the males embolus is flared, in Selenocosmia it is not).
