High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Geoffroy`s spider monkey, Ateles geoffroyi, also known as black-handed spider monkey, is a species of spider monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America, parts of Mexico and possibly a small portion of Colombia. There are at least five subspecies. Some primatologists classify the black-headed spider monkey, A. fusciceps, found in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador as the same species as Geoffroy`s spider monkey.