Epicadus Explained

Epicadus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.^[1] It is considered a senior synonym of Tobias.^[2]

Species

it contains eleven species, found in South and Central America:^[3]

• 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)

Nomina dubia

• 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

• List of Thomisidae species

Further reading

• 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. 442–455. 31. 4. 10.1071/IS16074. 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. 501–530. 4382. 3. 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.4. 29689930.
• Mello-Leitão. C. F. de. 1929. Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 9–359. 31.
• 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. 281–310. 4147. 3. 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.3.4. 27515619.

Notes and References

1. Book: Simon, E. 1895. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Roret . Paris. fr. 10.5962/bhl.title.51973. Eugène Simon.
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. 10.1071/IS16074. 89911664.
3. Gen. Epicadus Simon, 1895. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-10-07. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.