Taxon details

Family: Thomisidae / Genus: Epicadus

Epicadus stelloides (Walckenaer, 1837)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2021-11-11
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031170]
  • Distribution: Puerto Rico, Virgin Is., Venezuela, Brazil
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f (26036) of Epicadus caudatus (Mello-Leitão, 1929d)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; f (probably lost) (Machado et al., 2021)
  • Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; m (3973) of Stephanopis salobrensis (Machado et al., 2021)
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 2f (21628-21629) of Stephanopis trilobata (Machado et al., 2021)
Taxonomic references
Thomisus stelloides Walckenaer, 1837: 514 (Df).
Stephanopis stelloides Keyserling, 1880: 173, pl. 3, f. 95 (f).
Metatobias stelloides F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 161, pl. 11, f. 1 (f).
Stephanopis stelloides Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 55, f. 175-176 (f).
Stephanopis trilobata Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 56, f. 136 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031172].
Tobias caudatus Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 88, f. 187-188 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031754].
Stephanopis solobrensis Mello-Leitão, 1929d: 39, f. 138-139 (m, f is Kryptochroma parahybana) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031166].
Tobias caudatus Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2015: 567, f. 1-11 (f, Dm).
Epicadus caudatus Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2017: 448, f. 3A, S2B, S5D,F, S9C, S10A,F, S15A (f, T from Tobias).
Epicadus stelloides Machado et al., 2021: 66, f. (mf, T from Stephanopis, S of Epicadus caudatus, Stephanopis salobrensis and S. trilobata).
References

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

Machado, M., Teixeira, R. A. & Lise, A. A. (2015). Taxonomic notes on the crab spider genus Tobias Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Thomisidae, Stephanopinae). Zootaxa 4034(3): 565-576. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4034.3.8 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., Viecelli, R., Guzati, C., Grismado, C. J. & Teixeira, R. A. (2021). Kryptochroma: a new genus of bark-dwelling crab spiders (Araneae, Thomisidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 778: 26-70, 136-137. [incl. Corrigendum 10.5852/ejt.2021.778.1573] doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.778.1565 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, 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

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

External Resource References

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2021-11-11 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2021-11-11 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Kryptochroma parahybana (Mello-Leitão, 1929)
2021-11-11 Species distribution update Machado et al., 2021 n/a (Old value)
2021-11-11 Species synonymy Machado et al., 2021 Epicadus caudatus synonymized with Epicadus stelloides
2021-11-11 Species synonymy Machado et al., 2021 Epicadus salobrensis synonymized with Epicadus stelloides
2021-11-11 Species synonymy Machado et al., 2021 Epicadus trilobatus synonymized with Epicadus stelloides
2021-11-11 New taxonomic reference entry Machado et al., 2021 n/a
2021-11-11 Species transferred to new genus Machado et al., 2021 Species transferred from Stephanopis to Epicadus