Epicadus
| Epicadus | |
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| E. heterogaster | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Epicadus Simon[1] |
| Type species | |
| Epicadus heterogaster | |
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11, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Epicadus is a genus of crab spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895. It is considered a senior synonym of Tobias.[2]
Species
As of February 2019[update], it contains eleven species from Central and South America:[1]
- Epicadus camelinus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) — Bolivia, Brazil
- Epicadus caudatus (Mello-Leitão, 1929) — Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Brazil
- Epicadus dimidiaster Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018 — Colombia, Peru, Brazil
- Epicadus granulatus Banks, 1909 — Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil
- Epicadus heterogaster (Guérin, 1829) — 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 taczanowskii (Roewer, 1951) — Hispaniola, Panama to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Epicadus tigrinus Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018 — Costa Rica, Panama
- Epicadus trituberculatus (Taczanowski, 1872) — Mexico, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, French Guinea, Brazil, Argentina
- Epicadus tuberculatus (Petrunkevitch, 1910) — Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil
References
- ^ a b "Thomisidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
- ^ 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.