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Genus: Monocentropus Pocock, 1897 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Monocentropus lambertoni Fage, 1922

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

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Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2m 5f - (Fage, 1922a)

Taxonomic References

Monocentropus lambertoni Fage, 1922a: 365, f. 1-4 (Dmf) Original description

Monocentropus lambertoni Smith, 1990c: 43, f. 179b-e (m)

Monocentropus lambertoni Schmidt, 2003l: 214, f. 646-647 (m)

"Monocentropus" lambertoni Zamani et al., 2025d: 96, f. 2C-D, 3C-D, 8B, 9B, E, 10B, 11B, 12B, 13B, 14B, 15B, 16B, 17B, 18B, 19B, 20C-D, 21B, 22B, 23B (mf, incertae sedis)

References

Fage, L. (1922a). Materiaux pour servir à la faune des arachnides de Madagascar (Premiere note). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 28: 365-370. -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (2003l). Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht. Neue Brehm-Bücherei Hohenwarsleben, 383 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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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-07-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Zamani et al., 2025d