Tags: Arachnid.
Ornithoctoninae also known as earth tigers are a subfamily of Asian tarantulas which were first erected in 1895 by Reginald Innes Pocock on basis of the genotype Ornithoctonus andersoni described in 1892 from former Burma now Myanmar.The Ornithoctoninae is a theraphosid sub-family which are widely distributed in Asia from Myanmar to South China in the north and as far as to Halmahera in the Indonesian archipelago in the south and in all the ranges in between.
