Epicadus

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

Species

As of December 2021^[update] it contains eleven species, found in South and Central America:

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:

1 2 3 "Gen. Epicadus Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
1 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. S2CID 89911664.
↑ Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées (in French). Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.

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. S2CID 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. 4382 (3): 501–530. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.4. PMID 29689930.
Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1929). "Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil". Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro. 31: 9–359.
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. 4147 (3): 281–310. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4147.3.4. PMID 27515619.

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