Epidius is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877.[4] It is a senior synonym of Pothaeus.[3][5]

Epidius
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Epidius
Thorell, 1877[1]
Type species
E. longipalpis
Thorell, 1877
Species

15, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

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As of September 2020 it contains fifteen species and one subspecies, found in Africa and Asia:[1]

Formerly included:

  • E. bipunctatus (Thorell, 1891) (Transferred to Mastira)
  • E. brevipalpus Simon, 1903 (Transferred to Pharta)
  • E. gongi (Song & Kim, 1992) (Transferred to Epidius)
  • E. kalawitanus (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) (Transferred to Cebrenninus)
  • E. zhengi (Ono & Song, 1986) (Transferred to Pharta)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Gen. Epidius Thorell, 1877". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  2. ^ Benjamin, S. P. (2011). "Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 3080: 14. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3080.1.1.
  3. ^ a b Benjamin, S. P. (2017). "Distributional and taxonomic notes on the crab spider genus Epidius with descriptions of five new species (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Journal of Natural History. 51 (9–10): 470. doi:10.1080/00222933.2017.1302016. S2CID 90818752.
  4. ^ Thorell, T. (1877). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragni di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 10: 341–637.
  5. ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). "Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s. lat. and Stiphropodidae)". Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5: 159.

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