Epicadus
{{For| the Roman author and grammarian| Cornelius Epicadus}}
{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Epicadus
| image = Epicadus_heterogaster_(Guerin,_1829)_(15996642681).jpg
| image_caption = E. heterogaster
| authority = Simon, 1895
| type_species = E. heterogaster
| type_species_authority = (Guérin, 1829)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 11, see text
| synonyms =
- Tobias Simon, 1895
}}
Epicadus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1895| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| lang=fr| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène Simon}} It is considered a senior synonym of Tobias.{{cite journal| last1=Machado| first1=M.| last2=Teixeira| first2=R. A.| last3=Lise| first3=A. A.| year=2017| title=Cladistic analysis supports the monophyly of the Neotropical crab spider genus Epicadus and its senior synonymy over Tobias (Araneae: Thomisidae)| journal=Invertebrate Systematics| volume=31| issue=4| pages=442–455| doi=10.1071/IS16074| s2cid=89911664}}
Species
{{as of|2021|12}} it contains eleven species, found in South and Central America:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Epicadus Simon, 1895| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2020-10-07| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3622| doi=10.24436/2}}
- 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)
- 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
References
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Further reading
- {{cite journal| last1=Machado| first1=M.| last2=Teixeira| first2=R. A.| last3=Lise| first3=A. A.| year=2017| title=Cladistic analysis supports the monophyly of the Neotropical crab spider genus Epicadus and its senior synonymy over Tobias (Araneae: Thomisidae)| journal=Invertebrate Systematics| pages=442–455| volume=31| issue=4| doi=10.1071/IS16074| s2cid=89911664}}
- {{cite journal| last1=Machado| first1=M.| last2=Teixeira| first2=R. A.| last3=Lise| first3=A. A.| year=2018| title=There and back again: More on the taxonomy of the crab spiders genus Epicadus (Thomisidae: Stephanopinae)| journal=Zootaxa| pages=501–530| volume=4382| issue=3| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.4| pmid=29689930}}
- {{cite journal| last=Mello-Leitão| first=C. F. de| year=1929| title=Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil| journal=Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro| pages=9–359| volume=31}}
- {{cite journal| last1=Silva-Moreira| first1=T. da| last2=Machado| first2=M.| year=2016| title=Taxonomic revision of the crab spider genus Epicadus Simon, 1895 (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae) with notes on related genera of Stephanopinae Simon, 1895| journal=Zootaxa| pages=281–310| volume=4147| issue=3| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4147.3.4| pmid=27515619}}
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Category:Spiders of Central America
Category:Spiders of South America
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