Epidius is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1877.[4] It is a senior synonym of Pothaeus.[3][5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Epidius Thorell, 1877[1] |
| Type species | |
| E. longipalpis Thorell, 1877
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15, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Species edit
As of September 2020[update] it contains fifteen species and one subspecies, found in Africa and Asia:[1]
- Epidius armatus (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Laos, China
- Epidius binotatus Simon, 1897 – West Africa, Congo
- Epidius b. guineensis Millot, 1942 – Guinea
- Epidius coloratus Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo), Brunei
- Epidius denisi Lessert, 1943 – Congo
- Epidius elongatus Benjamin, 2017 – Thailand
- Epidius floreni Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo)
- Epidius gongi (Song & Kim, 1992) – China
- Epidius longimanus Benjamin, 2017 – India
- Epidius longipalpis Thorell, 1877 (type) – India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Seram, Sulawesi)
- Epidius lyriger Simon, 1897 – Philippines
- Epidius mahavira Benjamin, 2017 – India
- Epidius pallidus (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Epidius parvati Benjamin, 2000 – Sri Lanka, India
- Epidius rubropictus Simon, 1909 – China, Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Epidius typicus (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Japan
Formerly included:
- E. bipunctatus (Thorell, 1891) (Transferred to Mastira)
- E. brevipalpus Simon, 1903 (Transferred to Pharta)
- E. gongi (Song & Kim, 1992) (Transferred to Epidius)
- E. kalawitanus (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995) (Transferred to Cebrenninus)
- E. zhengi (Ono & Song, 1986) (Transferred to Pharta)
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c "Gen. Epidius Thorell, 1877". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ Benjamin, S. P. (2011). "Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae)". Zootaxa. 3080: 14. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3080.1.1.
- ^ a b Benjamin, S. P. (2017). "Distributional and taxonomic notes on the crab spider genus Epidius with descriptions of five new species (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Journal of Natural History. 51 (9–10): 470. doi:10.1080/00222933.2017.1302016. S2CID 90818752.
- ^ Thorell, T. (1877). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragni di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 10: 341–637.
- ^ Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). "Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s. lat. and Stiphropodidae)". Indian Journal of Arachnology. 5: 159.
Further reading edit
- Tang, G.; et al. (2009). "Six crab spiders of the family Stephanopinae from Southeast Asia (Araneae: Thomisidae)". Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 57: 39–50.
- Yin, C. M.; et al. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha. p. 1590.
- Yin, C. M.; Peng, X. J.; Kim, J. P. (1999). "Three new species of the genus Philodromus from China (Araneae: Philodromidae)". Korean Journal of Biological Sciences. 3 (4): 355–358. doi:10.1080/12265071.1999.9647507.