Taxon details


Epicadus heterogaster (Guérin, 1829)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-08-29
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030364]
  • Distribution: Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; f (Guérin, 1829)
  • Holotype: Museu de Zoologia da ‘Luiz de Queiroz’ (MZLQ), Piracicaba, Brazil [collection now in IBSP?]; f (A0120) of Epicadus heterogaster scholagriculae (Paschoal & Barros, 1983)
Taxonomic references
Thomisus heterogaster Guérin, 1829: 6, pl. 1, f. 4 (D).
Eripus heterogaster Walckenaer, 1833: 438, 441.
Eripus heterogaster Walckenaer, 1837: 541, pl. 12, f. 6 (Df).
Eripus heterogaster C. L. Koch, 1845: 46, f. 984-985 (f).
Eripus quinquegibbosus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877b: 557, pl. 56, f. 5 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05605].
Eripus heterogaster Keyserling, 1880: 164, pl. 3, f. 90 (f).
Eripus quinquegibbosus Keyserling, 1880: 164, pl. 3, f. 91 (Dm).
Eripus heterogaster Göldi, 1886: 411, pl. 11, f. 1-7 (f, S of Eripus quinquegibbosus).
Epicadus heterogaster Simon, 1895a: 1052, f. 1085 (f).
Epicadus heterogaster F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 160, pl. 10, f. 34 (f).
Epicadus heterogaster Vellard, 1924a: 9, f. 4 (f).
Epicadus heterogaster Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 94 (m).
Epicadus heterogaster scholagriculae Piza, 1933b: 50, f. 3 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:030365].
Epicadus heterogaster Silva-Moreira & Machado, 2016: 285, f. 1A-C, 2-6, 15A-C, 16A-D (mf, S of Epicadus heterogaster scholagriculae).
Epicadus heterogaster Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018: 513, f. 1A-F, 16E (mf).
References

Göldi, E. A. (1886). Biologische Miscellen aus Brasilien. II. Eripus heterogaster, eine brasilianische Spinne mit Lockfärbung. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Zeitschrift für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere 1(2): 411-416, pl. 11. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Guérin-Méneville, F. E. (1829). Iconographie du régne animal de Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables et souvent non encore figurées de chaque genre d'animaux. Paris 2, pl. 1, 2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1880). Die Spinnen Amerikas. Laterigradae. [Erster Band]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 283 pp., pl. 1-8. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.64832 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1845). Die Arachniden. C. H. Zeh'sche Buchhandlung, Nürnberg, Zwölfter Band, pp. 1-166, pl. 397-432 (f. 960-1077). [for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.43744 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 (1929d). Aphantochilidas e Thomisidas do Brasil. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 31: 9-359. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1877b). On some new species of Araneidea, with characters of two new genera and some remarks on the families Podophthalmides and Dinopides. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 45(3): 557-578, pl. 56-57. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1877.tb00537.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London 2, 89-192, pl. 6-15. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Piza Jr., S. de T. (1933b). Novos thomisidas do Brasil. Revista de Biologia e Hygiene, Sao Paolo 4: 45-51. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Silva-Moreira, T. & Machado, M. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the crab spider genus Epicadus Simon, 1895 (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae) with notes on related genera of Stephanopinae Simon, 1895. Zootaxa 4147(3): 281-310. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4147.3.4 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1895a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome premier. Roret, Paris, pp. 761-1084. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Vellard, J. (1924a). Etudes de zoologie. Archivos do Instituto Vital Brazil 2: 1-32, 121-170. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1833). Mémoire sur une nouvelle classification des aranéides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2: 414-446. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. [plates in second pdf] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.61095 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2018-02-22 New taxonomic reference entry Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018 n/a
2018-02-22 Species distribution update Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018 n/a (Old value)
2016-09-22 Species distribution update Silva-Moreira & Machado, 2016 n/a (Old value)
2016-09-22 New taxonomic reference entry Silva-Moreira & Machado, 2016 n/a
2016-09-22 New taxonomic reference entry Silva-Moreira & Machado, 2016 n/a
2016-09-22 Species synonymy Silva-Moreira & Machado, 2016 Epicadus heterogaster scholagriculae synonymized with Epicadus heterogaster