Mandy - my Southern Brown Tarantula

[mysnakesau]

I hate spiders and wasps but that is very cruel. I feel sorry for the poor spider.

 

[spiderdan]

Yes I meant Selenthotholus not Selenotypus. Yet to see the peer reviewed paper revising the taxonomy though. I know Robert Raven has been revising the Theraphosids but until it's been published (and it may have been - I haven't kept up) they're all just hobby names as far as I'm concerned. It's like the S.plumipes and S.crassipes groups. All sorts of names floating around but I don't see the science behind the nomenclature.

Selenotypus plumipes is a discribed species and will not change with Ravens review.
This is one of the first discribed sp in Oz.