Epicadinus

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

Species

As of September 2020^[update] it contains four species found from Mexico to Brazil:

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. 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)

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Prado, A. W. do; Baptista, R. L. C.; Machado, M. (2018). "Taxonomic review of Epicadinus Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 4459 (2): 201–234. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.1. PMID 30314106. S2CID 52976979.
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