Taxon details


Epicadus pulcher (Mello-Leitão, 1929)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2018-02-22
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031763]
  • Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f (137) (Mello-Leitão, 1929d)
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Tobias epicadoides Mello-Leitão, 1944, (01434); 1 f (destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Tobias pulcher Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 90, f. 189-190 (Df).
Tobias epicadoides Mello-Leitão, 1944a: 11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031757].
Tobias regius Birabén, 1955a: 75, f. 5-8 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031765].
Epicadus pulcher Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2017: 448 (T from Tobias, S of Tobias epicadoides and Tobias regius).
Epicadus pulcher Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018: 514, f. 7A-D (f).
References

Birabén, M. (1955a). Dos tomisidos neuvos de Bolivia (Araneae). Publicaciones de la Misión de Estudios de Patologia Regional Argentina, Jujuy 26(85-86): 73-77. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Machado, M., Teixeira, R. A. & Lise, A. A. (2017). Cladistic analysis supports the monophyly of the Neotropical crab spider genus Epicadus and its senior synonymy over Tobias (Araneae: Thomisidae). Invertebrate Systematics 31(4): 442-455 & Supplement. doi:10.1071/IS16074 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Machado, M., Teixeira, R. A. & Lise, A. A. (2018). There and back again: More on the taxonomy of the crab spiders genus Epicadus (Thomisidae: Stephanopinae). Zootaxa 4382(3): 501-530. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.4 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1944a). Algumas aranhas da região amazônica. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (N.S., Zool.) 25: 1-12. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1929d). Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 31: 9-359. download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2018-02-22 New taxonomic reference entry Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018 n/a
2017-06-27 Species distribution update Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2017 n/a (Old value)
2017-06-27 Species synonymy Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2017 Epicadus regius synonymized with Epicadus pulcher
2017-06-27 New taxonomic reference entry Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2017 n/a
2017-06-27 Species synonymy Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2017 Epicadus epicadoides synonymized with Epicadus pulcher
2017-06-27 Species transferred to new genus Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2017 Species transferred from Tobias to Epicadus