Epicadus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[3] It is considered a senior synonym of Tobias.[2]
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| E. heterogaster | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Epicadus Simon, 1895[1] |
| Type species | |
| E. heterogaster (Guérin, 1829)
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| Species | |
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11, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs of December 2021[update] it contains eleven species, found in South and Central America:[1]
- Epicadus camelinus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Epicadus dimidiaster Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018 – Colombia, Peru, Brazil
- Epicadus granulatus Banks, 1909 – Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil
- Epicadus heterogaster (Guérin, 1829) (type) – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
- Epicadus pulcher (Mello-Leitão, 1929) – Bolivia, Brazil
- Epicadus rubripes Mello-Leitão, 1924 – Brazil
- Epicadus stelloides (Walckenaer, 1837) – Puerto Rico, Virgin Is., Venezuela, Brazil
- Epicadus taczanowskii (Roewer, 1951) – Hispaniola, Costa Rica, Panama to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Epicadus tigrinus Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018 – Costa Rica, Panama
- Epicadus trituberculatus (Taczanowski, 1872) – Mexico, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, French Guiana, Brazil, Argentina
- Epicadus tuberculatus (Petrunkevitch, 1910) – Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
Formerly included:
- E. mutchleri Petrunkevitch, 1930 (Transferred to Rejanellus)
- E. albicans (Mello-Leitão, 1929
- E. albovittatus (Caporiacco, 1954
- E. corticatus (Mello-Leitão, 1917
- E. flavus (Giebel, 1863
- E. gradiens (Mello-Leitão, 1929
- E. polyophthalmus (Mello-Leitão, 1929
- E. ruber (Giebel, 1863
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Epicadus Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ a b Machado, M.; Teixeira, R. A.; Lise, A. A. (2017). "Cladistic analysis supports the monophyly of the Neotropical crab spider genus Epicadus and its senior synonymy over Tobias (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 31 (4): 442–455. doi:10.1071/IS16074. S2CID 89911664.
- ^ Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
Further reading
edit- Machado, M.; Teixeira, R. A.; Lise, A. A. (2017). "Cladistic analysis supports the monophyly of the Neotropical crab spider genus Epicadus and its senior synonymy over Tobias (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 31 (4): 442–455. doi:10.1071/IS16074. S2CID 89911664.
- Machado, M.; Teixeira, R. A.; Lise, A. A. (2018). "There and back again: More on the taxonomy of the crab spiders genus Epicadus (Thomisidae: Stephanopinae)". Zootaxa. 4382 (3): 501–530. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.4. PMID 29689930.
- Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1929). "Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil". Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 31: 9–359.
- Silva-Moreira, T. da; Machado, M. (2016). "Taxonomic revision of the crab spider genus Epicadus Simon, 1895 (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae) with notes on related genera of Stephanopinae Simon, 1895". Zootaxa. 4147 (3): 281–310. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4147.3.4. PMID 27515619.