Monocentropus balfouri Pocock, 1897

Common name: Socotra Island Blue Baboon

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Female

Female

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Original Description

Pocock, R. I. (1897). 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 1897.

Distribution

Yemen

Type Locality: Socotra

Etymology

Named after the collector of the type specimen I.B Balfour

Specimen Records (1)

BMNH 81-10-6 ♂ Type Socotra

Socotra

col. B. Balfour

Genitalia

Spermathecae

Taxonomic History

1897
Monocentropus balfouri Pocock, 1897, type species of the genus. Zamani et al. (2025) redefined Monocentropus to contain this species alone, transferring M. longimanus to the new genus Satyrex and treating M. lambertoni as incertae sedis.

Bibliography (2)

Pocock, R. I. (1897). 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 1897.

Zamani, A., von Wirth, V., Fabiánek, P., Höfling, J., Just, P., Korba, J., Petzold, A., Stockmann, M., Elmi, H. S. A., Vences, M. & Opatova, V. (2025). 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.