Epicadinus

Epicadinus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.^[2]

Epicadinus
Epicadinus villosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Epicadinus Simon, 1895[1]
Type species
E. trispinosus (Taczanowski, 1872)
Species
4, see text

Species

As of September 2020^[update] it contains four species found from Mexico to Brazil:^[1]

• Epicadinus biocellatus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil
• Epicadinus spinipes (Blackwall, 1862) – Brazil
• Epicadinus trispinosus (Taczanowski, 1872) (type) – Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Brazil
• Epicadinus villosus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina

Formerly included:

• E. tuberculatus Petrunkevitch, 1910 (Transferred to Epicadus)

In synonymy:

• E. albimaculatus Mello-Leitão, 1929 = Epicadinus spinipes (Blackwall, 1862)
• E. cornutus (Taczanowski, 1872) = Epicadinus trispinosus (Taczanowski, 1872)
• E. gavensis Soares, 1946 = Epicadinus spinipes (Blackwall, 1862)
• E. helenae Piza, 1936 = Epicadinus villosus Mello-Leitão, 1929
• E. marmoratus Mello-Leitão, 1947 = Epicadinus villosus Mello-Leitão, 1929
• E. trifidus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) = Epicadinus trispinosus (Taczanowski, 1872)

See also

• List of Thomisidae species