Epidius (spider) explained

Epidius is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877.^[1] It is a senior synonym of Pothaeus.^{[2] [3]}

Species

it contains fifteen species and one subspecies, found in Africa and Asia:^[4]

• Epidius armatus (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Laos, China
• Epidius binotatus Simon, 1897 – West Africa, Congo
  • Epidius b. guineensis Millot, 1942 – Guinea
• Epidius coloratus Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo), Brunei
• Epidius denisi Lessert, 1943 – Congo
• Epidius elongatus Benjamin, 2017 – Thailand
• Epidius floreni Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo)
• Epidius gongi (Song & Kim, 1992) – China
• Epidius longimanus Benjamin, 2017 – India
• Epidius longipalpis Thorell, 1877 (type) – India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Seram, Sulawesi)
• Epidius lyriger Simon, 1897 – Philippines
• Epidius mahavira Benjamin, 2017 – India
• Epidius pallidus (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Epidius parvati Benjamin, 2000 – Sri Lanka, India
• Epidius rubropictus Simon, 1909 – China, Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Epidius typicus (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Japan

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

• List of Thomisidae species

Further reading

• Tang. G.. etal. 2009. Six crab spiders of the family Stephanopinae from Southeast Asia (Araneae: Thomisidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 39–50. 57.
• Book: Yin, C. M.. etal. 2012. Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha. 1590.
• Yin. C. M.. Peng. X. J.. Kim. J. P.. 1999. Three new species of the genus Philodromus from China (Araneae: Philodromidae). Korean Journal of Biological Sciences. 355–358. 3. 4. 10.1080/12265071.1999.9647507. free.

Notes and References

1. 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. 341–637. 10. Tamerlan_Thorell.
2. 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. 10.1080/00222933.2017.1302016. 90818752.
3. Lehtinen. P. T.. 2016. Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s. lat. and Stiphropodidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5. 159. Pekka_T._Lehtinen.
4. Gen. Epidius Thorell, 1877. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2020-10-07. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.