Satyrex longimanus (Pocock, 1903)

Common name: Yemeni black tarantula

♀ Female described ♂ Male described

Original Description

Type Locality and Records

Type locality

Bibliography

Pocock, R. I. (1903). Some Arachnida collected by Mr G. W. Bury in Yemen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 11: 214-220.

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.

Distribution

Yemen

Type Locality: YEMEN, Dhale Governorate, Dthala [= Dhale], El Kubar [= Al Kubar]

Specimen Records (4)

NHMUK 03-9-2-29 ♂ Holotype Yemen

Dthala [= Dhale], El Kubar [= Al Kubar], Dhale

1903 · col. G. W. Berry

Holotype male of Monocentropus longimanus Pocock, 1903, now Satyrex longimanus comb. nov. Zamani et al. (2025) report that it appears to have been LOST: only a schematic illustration of its bulb, with the embolus broken, is available in the literature. Their account of the male therefore rests on Pocock (1903), Smith (1990) and Schmidt (2003). Collection date not stated; 1903 is the year of description.

BMNH 03-9-2-29. ♂ Type Yemen

El Kubar = Al Kubar

col. Berry paratype

BMNH 1903-9-2-30 ♀ Type Yemen

Dthala - El Kubar = Al Kubar

NHMUK 03-9-2-30 ♀ Yemen

Dthala [= Dhale], El Kubar [= Al Kubar], Dhale

1903 · col. G. W. Berry

Female of Satyrex longimanus collected with the holotype and held at the NHMUK for over a century; examined and described for the first time by Zamani et al. (2025). Total length 40.45 mm. Not a type: the paper lists it under other material examined.