Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Epicadus

Epicadus polyophthalmus (Mello-Leitão, 1929)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: nomen dubium
  • Described: f
  • Last updated: 2018-08-15
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030357]
  • Distribution: Brazil
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019); Epicadinus polyophthalmus Mello-Leitão, 1929, (00913); 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018)
Taxonomic references
Epicadinus polyophthalmus Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 102, f. 46 (Df).
Epicadus polyophthalmus do Prado, Baptista & Machado, 2018: 230 (T from Epicadinus, nomen dubium).
References

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

Prado, A. W. do, Baptista, R. L. C. & Machado, M. (2018). Taxonomic review of Epicadinus Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4459(2): 201-234. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2018-08-15 Taxon is nomen dubium do Prado, Baptista & Machado, 2018 Epicadus polyophthalmus (Mello-Leitão, 1929) declared a nomen dubium
2018-08-15 New taxonomic reference entry do Prado, Baptista & Machado, 2018 n/a
2018-08-15 Species transferred to new genus do Prado, Baptista & Machado, 2018 Species transferred from Epicadinus to Epicadus