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