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

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.