Monocentropus balfouri Pocock, 1897

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Described:

Distribution: Yemen (Socotra)

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  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (81-10-6) - (Zamani et al., 2025d)
Taxonomic References
Monocentropus balfouri Pocock, 1897b: 759, pl. 41, f. 1 (Dm) Original description
Monocentropus balfouri Smith, 1986b: 36, f. 23 (m)
Monocentropus balfouri Smith, 1987d: 36, f. 23 (m)
Monocentropus balfouri Smith, 1990c: 42, f. 167-179a (m)
Monocentropus balfouri Schmidt, 1993d: 111, f. 346 (m)
Monocentropus balfouri Schmidt, 2001c: 13, f. 1 (f)
Monocentropus balfouri Schmidt, 2003l: 214, f. 644-645 (m)
Monocentropus balfouri Zamani et al., 2025d: 94, f. 2A-B, 3A-B, 8A, 9A, 10A, 11A, 12A, 13A, 14A, 15A, 16A, 17A, 18A, 19A, 20A-B, 21A, 22A, 23A (mf)
References

Pocock, R. I. (1897b). On the spiders of the suborder Mygalomorphae from the Ethiopian Region, contained in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 65(3): 724-774, pl. 46-48. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1993d). Vogelspinnen: Vorkommen, Lebensweise, Haltung und Zucht, mit Bestimmungsschlüsseln für alle Gattungen, Vierte Auflage. Landbuch Hannover, 151 pp. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2001c). Eumenophorinae sp. von der Insel Sokotra - Mitarbeit erbeten. Arachnologisches Magazin 9(5/6): 13-14. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei Hohenwarsleben, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1986b). The tarantula: classification and identification guide. Fitzgerald Publishing London, 179 pp. -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1987d). The tarantula: classification and identification guide (second ed.). Fitzgerald Publishing London, 179 pp. -- Show included taxa

Smith, A. M. (1990c). Baboon spiders: Tarantulas of Africa and the Middle East. Fitzgerald Publishing London, 142 pp. -- Show included taxa

Zamani, A., Wirth, V. von, Fabiánek, P., Höfling, J., Just, P., Korba, J., Petzold, A., Stockmann, M., Elmi, H. S. A., Vences, M. & Opatova, V. (2025d). Size matters: a new genus of tarantula with the longest male palps, and an integrative revision of Monocentropus Pocock, 1897 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Eumenophorinae). ZooKeys 1247: 89-126. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1247.162886 -- Show included taxa

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2025-07-23 New taxonomic reference entry Zamani et al., 2025d

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