Epidius (spider)

Epidius
E. armatus from India
Scientific classification
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]
Cupa Strand, 1906 [2] Pothaeus Thorell, 1895 [3]

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]}

Species

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

• Epidius armatus (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Laos, China
• Epidius binotatus Simon, 1897 – West Africa, Congo
  • Epidius b. guineensis Millot, 1942 – Guinea
• Epidius coloratus Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo), Brunei
• Epidius denisi Lessert, 1943 – Congo
• Epidius elongatus Benjamin, 2017 – Thailand
• 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, 1897 – Philippines
• 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. brevipalpusSimon, 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

• List of Thomisidae species

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 .