Epidius (spider)

Epidius is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877.^[4] It is a senior synonym of Pothaeus.^[3][5]

Epidius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Epidius Thorell, 1877[1]
Type species
E. longipalpis Thorell, 1877
Species
15, see text
Synonyms[1]
Cupa Strand, 1906[2] Pothaeus Thorell, 1895[3]

Species

As of September 2020^[update] it contains fifteen species and one subspecies, found in Africa and Asia:^[1]

• Epidius armatus (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Laos, China
• Epidius binotatus Simon, 1897 – West Africa, Congo
  • Epidius b. guineensis Millot, 1942 – Guinea
• Epidius coloratus Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo), Brunei
• Epidius denisi Lessert, 1943 – Congo
• Epidius elongatus Benjamin, 2017 – Thailand
• Epidius floreni Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo)
• Epidius gongi (Song & Kim, 1992) – China
• Epidius longimanus Benjamin, 2017 – India
• Epidius longipalpis Thorell, 1877 (type) – India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Seram, Sulawesi)
• Epidius lyriger Simon, 1897 – Philippines
• Epidius mahavira Benjamin, 2017 – India
• Epidius pallidus (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Epidius parvati Benjamin, 2000 – Sri Lanka, India
• Epidius rubropictus Simon, 1909 – China, Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Epidius typicus (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Japan

Formerly included:

• E. bipunctatus (Thorell, 1891) (Transferred to Mastira)
• E. brevipalpus Simon, 1903 (Transferred to Pharta)
• E. gongi (Song & Kim, 1992) (Transferred to Epidius)
• E. kalawitanus (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) (Transferred to Cebrenninus)
• E. zhengi (Ono & Song, 1986) (Transferred to Pharta)

See also

• List of Thomisidae species