''Epidius'' is a
genus of
crab spiders
The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 170 genera and over 2,100 species. The common name crab spider is often linked to species in this family, but is also applied loosely to many other families of spiders. Many members of th ...
that was first described by
Tamerlan Thorell in 1877.
It is a
senior synonym of ''Pothaeus''.
Species
it contains fifteen species and one subspecies, found in Africa and Asia:
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Epidius armatus
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(Thorell, 1895) –
India,
Myanmar
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,
Laos
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, China
*''Epidius binotatus''
Eugène Simon, Simon, 1897 – West Africa, Central Africa, Congo
**''Epidius binotatus, 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 species, 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 & Embrik Strand, 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
* List of Thomisidae species
References
Further reading
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Thomisidae
Thomisidae genera
Spiders of Africa
Spiders of Asia
Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
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