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Epicadus

Machado, Miguel;Teixeira, Renato Augusto;Lise, Arno Antonio

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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.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilyThomisidae

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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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