Monocentropus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897.[2] As of March 2020[update] it contains three species, found on Madagascar and in Yemen: M. balfouri, M. lambertoni, and M. longimanus.[1]
M. balfouri has many unusual characteristics for a tarantula species, most notably their heightened defensiveness towards humans, gregarious nature with others of their own kind, and strong maternal instincts, with mothers even bringing food to their spiderlings. Their striking blue coloration and tendency to live in colonies make them an attractive, rewarding but challenging and obstreperous-natured pet.[3]
^ ab"Gen. Monocentropus Pocock, 1897". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
^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. 65 (3): 724–774. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03116.x.
^"Monocentropus balfouri 101: Care, Enclosure, Temperament & More". Beyond The Treat. 2019-06-02. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
Monocentropus balfouri is a tarantula in the Monocentropus genus, it was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897. This tarantula is also called...
Monocentropus is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897. As of March 2020[update] it contains three species,...
some spitting spiders, African agelenid spiders in the genus Agelena, Monocentropus balfouri and a few others.[citation needed] Female velvet spiders exhibit...
including several spiders (such as the Socotra Island Blue Baboon tarantula Monocentropus balfouri) and three species of freshwater crabs in the Potamidae (Socotra...
included Anoploscelus and Phoneyusa. A 2018 study included Hysterocrates, Monocentropus and Pelinobius. Genera that have been placed in the subfamily Eumenophorinae...
endemic invertebrates, including several spiders (such as the tarantula Monocentropus balfouri) and three species of freshwater crabs (one Socotra pseudocardisoma...
on nearly every eumenophorine theraphosid (with the exception being Monocentropus that only has plumose setae). As a near constant rule, large terrestrial...
(Nesomys lambertoni) of western Madagascar, Lamberton's baboon tarantula (Monocentropus lambertoni), and the Fito leaf chameleon (Brookesia lambertoni). The...
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