type Palicanus caudatus Thorell, 1897; gender masculine

N.B.: transferred from the Clubionidae to the Miturgidae by Lehtinen, 1967: 255; the subfamily Systariinae Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 202 (including the genera Palicanus, Systaria, Tamin and Xantharia) was described as a subfamily of the Clubionidae (s. lat.) and included provisionally in the Miturgidae by Ramírez et al., 2014: 342

In synonymy:
Palicanus barkudensis (Gravely, 1931) = Palicanus caudatus Thorell, 1897 (Sankaran & Sebastian, 2019: 193).

Palicanus caudatus Thorell, 1897a: 227 (Dm).
Syrisca barkudensis Gravely, 1931: 267, f. 18A-B (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:023588].
Syrisca barkudensis Majumder & Tikader, 1991: 107, f. 225-229 (mf).
Palicanus caudatus Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 220, f. 266-271 (m, Df).
Systaria barkudensis Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: 203 (Tmf from Syrisca).
Palicanus caudatus Saaristo, 2002: 16, f. 41-46 (mf).
Palicanus caudatus Saaristo, 2010: 90, f. 16.1-5 (mf).
Palicanus caudatus Jacquot, Derepas & Deguine, 2016: 425, f. 4a-h (mf).
Palicanus caudatus Sankaran & Sebastian, 2019: 193, f. 1A-F, 2A-D, 3A-E (m, S of Systaria barkudensis).