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Genus: Epicadus Simon, 1895 | Family: Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833

Epicadus pulcher Mello-Leitão, 1929

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:031763

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Described:

Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil

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Type Repository 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) Original description

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. -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. -- 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. -- 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	Old value	Comment
2018-02-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2018
2017-06-27	Species distribution update	Machado, Teixeira & Lise, 2017	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
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