Epicadinus Explained

Epicadinus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.^[1]

Species

it contains four species found from Mexico to Brazil:^[2]

• 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

• List of Thomisidae species

Further reading

• Prado. A. W. do. Baptista. R. L. C.. Machado. M.. 2018. Taxonomic review of Epicadinus Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa. 201–234. 4459. 2. 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.1. 30314106. 52976979.
• Mello-Leitão. C. F. de. 1929. Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 9–359. 31.
• Book: Keyserling, E.. 1880. Die Spinnen Amerikas, I. Laterigradae. 1–283. Bauer & Raspe. 10.5962/bhl.title.64832.
• Taczanowski. L.. 1872. Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae. 64–112. 9.

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E. 1895. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. fr. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène Simon.
2. Gen. Epicadinus Simon, 1895. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-10-07. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.