The Selenogyrinae are a subfamily of tarantulas found in Africa and Asia."Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog. NMBE. Retrieved June, 2016.
Characteristics The Selenogyrinae are characterized by a unique stridulating organ situated between the chelicerae, which consists of two very similar rows of hair. In Annandaliella, this is reduced.Hirst, A. S. (1908). On a new type of stridulating-organ in mygalomorph spiders, with the description of a new genus and species belonging to the suborder. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 2: 401-405 Some species have labiosternal mounds and the clypeus is usually absent, or very narrow.
Genera The WSC currently accepts these genera: Annandaliella, Hirst 1909 Euphrictus, Hirst 1908 Selenogyrus, Pocock 1897 Selenogyrus and Euphrictus were the original genera in Arthur Stanley Hirst's 1908 Selenogyrinae. Annandaliella genus, also described by Hirst in 1909, was added to the subfamily by Gunter Schmidt in 1993.Schmidt, G. (1993). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch Verlag, Hannover, 151 pp.
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