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Genus: Satyrex Zamani & von Wirth, 2025 | Family: Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Satyrex longimanus (Pocock, 1903)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002243

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Described:

Distribution: Yemen

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Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m (03-9-2-29) - (Zamani et al., 2025d)

Taxonomic References

Monocentropus longimanus Pocock, 1903c: 219 (Dm) Original description

Monocentropus longimanus Smith, 1990c: 43, f. 180-187 (m)

Monocentropus longimanus Schmidt, 2003l: 214, f. 648-649 (m)

Satyrex longimanus Zamani et al., 2025d: 103, f. 6B, E, 7B, E, 8D, 14G, 21D (m, Df, T from Monocentropus)

References

Pocock, R. I. (1903c). Some Arachnida collected by Mr G. W. Bury in Yemen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 11(62): 214-220. doi: 10.1080/00222930308678752 -- 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
2025-07-23	Species transferred to new genus	Zamani et al., 2025d		Species transferred from Monocentropus to Satyrex
2025-07-23	First description of female	Zamani et al., 2025d	Old value