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

it contains eleven species, found in South and Central America:

• Epicadus camelinus <small>(O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869)</small> – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
• Epicadus dimidiaster <small>Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018</small> – Colombia, Peru, Brazil
• Epicadus granulatus <small>Banks, 1909</small> – Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil
• Epicadus heterogaster <small>(Guérin, 1829)</small> (type) – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• Epicadus pulcher <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1929)</small> – Bolivia, Brazil
• Epicadus rubripes <small>Mello-Leitão, 1924</small> – Brazil
• Epicadus stelloides <small>(Walckenaer, 1837)</small> – Puerto Rico, Virgin Is., Venezuela, Brazil
• Epicadus taczanowskii <small>(Roewer, 1951)</small> – Hispaniola, Costa Rica, Panama to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
• Epicadus tigrinus <small>Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018</small> – Costa Rica, Panama
• Epicadus trituberculatus <small>(Taczanowski, 1872)</small> – Mexico, Panama, Peru, Bolivia, French Guiana, Brazil, Argentina
• Epicadus tuberculatus <small>(Petrunkevitch, 1910)</small> – Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil

Formerly included:

• E. mutchleri <small>Petrunkevitch, 1930</small> (Transferred to Rejanellus)

Nomina dubia

• E. albicans <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1929</small>
• E. albovittatus <small>(Caporiacco, 1954</small>
• E. corticatus <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1917</small>
• E. flavus <small>(Giebel, 1863</small>
• E. gradiens <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1929</small>
• E. polyophthalmus <small>(Mello-Leitão, 1929</small>
• E. ruber <small>(Giebel, 1863</small>

See also

• List of Thomisidae species

References

Further reading