Epidius (spider)

Epidius is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877.[4] It is a senior synonym of Pothaeus.[3][5]

Epidius
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Epidius
Thorell, 1877[1]
Type species
E. longipalpis
Thorell, 1877
Species

15, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of September 2020 it contains fifteen species and one subspecies, found in Africa and Asia:[1]

  • Epidius armatus (Thorell, 1895)India, Myanmar, Laos, China
  • Epidius binotatus Simon, 1897West Africa, Congo
    • Epidius b. guineensis Millot, 1942Guinea
  • Epidius coloratus Benjamin, 2017Malaysia (Borneo), Brunei
  • Epidius denisi Lessert, 1943 – Congo
  • Epidius elongatus Benjamin, 2017Thailand
  • Epidius floreni Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo)
  • Epidius gongi (Song & Kim, 1992) – China
  • Epidius longimanus Benjamin, 2017 – India
  • Epidius longipalpis Thorell, 1877 (type) – India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Seram, Sulawesi)
  • Epidius lyriger Simon, 1897Philippines
  • Epidius mahavira Benjamin, 2017 – India
  • Epidius pallidus (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Epidius parvati Benjamin, 2000 – Sri Lanka, India
  • Epidius rubropictus Simon, 1909 – China, Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra)
  • Epidius typicus (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906)Japan

Formerly included:

  • E. bipunctatus (Thorell, 1891) (Transferred to Mastira)
  • E. brevipalpus Simon, 1903 (Transferred to Pharta)
  • E. gongi (Song & Kim, 1992) (Transferred to Epidius)
  • E. kalawitanus (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) (Transferred to Cebrenninus)
  • E. zhengi (Ono & Song, 1986) (Transferred to Pharta)

See also

References

  1. "Gen. Epidius Thorell, 1877". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  2. Benjamin, S. P. (2011). "Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 3080: 14. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3080.1.1.
  3. Benjamin, S. P. (2017). "Distributional and taxonomic notes on the crab spider genus Epidius with descriptions of five new species (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Journal of Natural History. 51 (9–10): 470. doi:10.1080/00222933.2017.1302016. S2CID 90818752.
  4. Thorell, T. (1877). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragni di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 10: 341–637.
  5. Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). "Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s. lat. and Stiphropodidae)". Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5: 159.

Further reading

  • Tang, G.; et al. (2009). "Six crab spiders of the family Stephanopinae from Southeast Asia (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 57: 39–50.
  • Yin, C. M.; et al. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha. p. 1590.
  • Yin, C. M.; Peng, X. J.; Kim, J. P. (1999). "Three new species of the genus Philodromus from China (Araneae: Philodromidae)". Korean Journal of Biological Sciences. 3 (4): 355–358. doi:10.1080/12265071.1999.9647507.


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