Machado, Miguel;Teixeira, Renato Augusto;Lise, Arno Antonio
Epicadus
Sign in to saveEpicadus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895. It is considered a senior synonym of Tobias.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Epicadus is referenced by 4 other articles, and connects out to Thomisidae, Mexico and Brazil.
It sits within the topics Spiders of Central America, Spiders of South America and Taxa named by Eugène Simon.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 42
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Collections
- FMNH, MCZ, MNRJ, MPEG
- Recorded in
- Honduras, Panama, Brasil
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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 (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
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