Epidius (spider)

Epidius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Thomisidae
Genus:	Epidius; Thorell, 1877
Type species
	; Thorell, 1877
Species
	15, see text
Synonyms
	Cupa Strand, 1906; Pothaeus Thorell, 1895;

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]

Species[]

As of September 2020 it contains fifteen species and one subspecies, found in Africa and Asia:^[1]

(Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar, Laos, China
Simon, 1897 – West Africa, Congo
- Millot, 1942 – Guinea
Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo), Brunei
Lessert, 1943 – Congo
Benjamin, 2017 – Thailand
Benjamin, 2017 – Malaysia (Borneo)
(Song & Kim, 1992) – China
Benjamin, 2017 – India
Thorell, 1877 (type) – India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Seram, Sulawesi)
Simon, 1897 – Philippines
Benjamin, 2017 – India
(Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
Epidius parvati Benjamin, 2000 – Sri Lanka, India
Simon, 1909 – China, Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra)
(Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Japan

Formerly included:

^ Jump up to: ^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.
^ Jump up to: ^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: 470.
^ 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.