Epicadinus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.
Species
it contains four species found from Mexico to Brazil:
- Epicadinus biocellatus <small>Mello-Leitão, 1929</small> â Brazil
- Epicadinus spinipes <small>(Blackwall, 1862)</small> â Brazil
- Epicadinus trispinosus <small>(Taczanowski, 1872)</small> (type) â Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Brazil
- Epicadinus villosus <small>Mello-Leitão, 1929</small> â Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
Formerly included:
- E. tuberculatus <small>Petrunkevitch, 1910</small> (Transferred to Epicadus)
In synonymy:
- E. albimaculatus <small>Mello-Leitão, 1929</small> = Epicadinus spinipes <small>(Blackwall, 1862)</small>
- E. cornutus <small>(Taczanowski, 1872)</small> = Epicadinus trispinosus <small>(Taczanowski, 1872)</small>
- E. gavensis <small>Soares, 1946</small> = Epicadinus spinipes <small>(Blackwall, 1862)</small>
- E. helenae <small>Piza, 1936</small> = Epicadinus villosus <small>Mello-Leitão, 1929</small>
- E. marmoratus <small>Mello-Leitão, 1947</small> = Epicadinus villosus <small>Mello-Leitão, 1929</small>
- E. trifidus <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893)</small> = Epicadinus trispinosus <small>(Taczanowski, 1872)</small>
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