Hi,
The Selenocosmia are just the selenocosmiine subfamily dumping ground, all old descriptions that could not easily fit into any other genus, simply were lumped here. There are multiple examples, as Chris said, S.peerboomi is not part of the Selenocosmia either, they clearly fit into the Orphnaecus. Nothing from Australia belongs to the Selenocosmia, very little to nothing from India fits into the Selenocosmia, yet count the number of spp. from this genus from those countries, they are numerous.
We are waiting for the work to start so the mess can be cleared up. Raven announced the Phlogius resurrection, Volker and Borris have mentioned several projects around this issue too. Nobody has touched the group because the holotype is lost, a neotype must be described first and that job, being the intitial one needed, has already been proposed by Volker and Borris. In short, very little can even be done with most of the Selenocosmiinae until the neotype is described, then the floodgates open, so to speak
I've got nov.sp. Selenocosmia and some others for description, but I can't touch them until the above works are completed, needless to say I'm pretty keen to see the work done, Volker and Borris announced they would take the job about 3 years ago. Raven announced he'd do the Phlogius revision 2 years ago.
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Steve
The Selenocosmia are just the selenocosmiine subfamily dumping ground, all old descriptions that could not easily fit into any other genus, simply were lumped here. There are multiple examples, as Chris said, S.peerboomi is not part of the Selenocosmia either, they clearly fit into the Orphnaecus. Nothing from Australia belongs to the Selenocosmia, very little to nothing from India fits into the Selenocosmia, yet count the number of spp. from this genus from those countries, they are numerous.
We are waiting for the work to start so the mess can be cleared up. Raven announced the Phlogius resurrection, Volker and Borris have mentioned several projects around this issue too. Nobody has touched the group because the holotype is lost, a neotype must be described first and that job, being the intitial one needed, has already been proposed by Volker and Borris. In short, very little can even be done with most of the Selenocosmiinae until the neotype is described, then the floodgates open, so to speak
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