Epicadinus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Epicadinus Simon, 1895[1] |
| Type species | |
| E. trispinosus (Taczanowski, 1872)
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Species edit
As of September 2020[update] it contains four species found from Mexico to Brazil:[1]
- Epicadinus biocellatus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
- Epicadinus spinipes (Blackwall, 1862) – Brazil
- Epicadinus trispinosus (Taczanowski, 1872) (type) – Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Brazil
- Epicadinus villosus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
Formerly included:
- E. tuberculatus Petrunkevitch, 1910 (Transferred to Epicadus)
In synonymy:
- E. albimaculatus Mello-Leitão, 1929 = Epicadinus spinipes (Blackwall, 1862)
- E. cornutus (Taczanowski, 1872) = Epicadinus trispinosus (Taczanowski, 1872)
- E. gavensis Soares, 1946 = Epicadinus spinipes (Blackwall, 1862)
- E. helenae Piza, 1936 = Epicadinus villosus Mello-Leitão, 1929
- E. marmoratus Mello-Leitão, 1947 = Epicadinus villosus Mello-Leitão, 1929
- E. trifidus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) = Epicadinus trispinosus (Taczanowski, 1872)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b "Gen. Epicadinus Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
Further reading edit
- Prado, A. W. do; Baptista, R. L. C.; Machado, M. (2018). "Taxonomic review of Epicadinus Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 4459 (2): 201–234. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.1. PMID 30314106. S2CID 52976979.
- Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1929). "Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil". Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 31: 9–359.
- Keyserling, E. (1880). Die Spinnen Amerikas, I. Laterigradae. Bauer & Raspe. pp. 1–283. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832.
- Taczanowski, L. (1872). "Les aranéides de la Guyane française". Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae. 9: 64–112.