Epicadus

For the Roman author and grammarian, see Cornelius Epicadus.

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]

Epicadus
E. heterogaster
Scientific classification
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]

Species

As of December 2021^[update] 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

• List of Thomisidae species