Biology:Epicadus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Epicadus
Epicadus heterogaster (Guerin, 1829) (15996642681).jpg
E. heterogaster
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Epicadus
Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
E. heterogaster
(Guérin, 1829)
Species

11, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Tobias Simon, 1895[2]

Epicadus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.[3] It is considered a senior synonym of Tobias.[2]

Species

(As of December 2021) it contains eleven species, found in South and Central America:[1]

  • 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)

Nomina dubia

  • 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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Epicadus Simon, 1895. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3622. Retrieved 2020-10-07. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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. 
  3. ↑ Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris: Roret. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973. 

Further reading

  • 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. 
  • 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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