Epicadus

Epicadus is a genus of crab spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895. It is considered a senior synonym of Tobias.[2]

For the Roman author and grammarian, see Cornelius Epicadus.

Epicadus
E. heterogaster
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Epicadus
Simon[1]
Type species
Epicadus heterogaster
Species

11, see text

Synonyms
  • Tobias

Species

As of February 2019, it contains eleven species from Central and South America:[1]

  • Epicadus camelinus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) — Bolivia, Brazil
  • Epicadus caudatus (Mello-Leitão, 1929) — Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Brazil
  • Epicadus dimidiaster Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018 — Colombia, Peru, Brazil
  • Epicadus granulatus Banks, 1909 — Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil
  • Epicadus heterogaster (Guérin, 1829) — 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 taczanowskii (Roewer, 1951) — Hispaniola, Panama to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
  • Epicadus tigrinus Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018 — Costa Rica, Panama
  • Epicadus trituberculatus (Taczanowski, 1872) — Mexico, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, French Guinea, Brazil, Argentina
  • Epicadus tuberculatus (Petrunkevitch, 1910) — Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
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References
  1. "Thomisidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  2. 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.
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