Taxonomic revision of the crab spider genus Epicadus Simon, 1895 (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae) with notes on related genera of Stephanopinae Simon, 1895
Silva-Moreira, Thiago Da
Machado, Miguel
Zootaxa
2016
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Arachnida
Thomisidae
Epicadus
Animalia
Araneae
3
284
Arthropoda
genus
1. Opisthosoma spherical, with all opisthosomal projections subequal, vertically oriented ( Fig. 2B).......... E. heterogaster - Opisthosoma trapezoid; median posterior opisthosomal projection larger and stouter than the others ( Figs 7B; 11 B)..... 2 2. MS pronounced. Eye mound with granular rows bordering all the frontal area of prosoma; median posterior opisthosomal pro- jection vertically oriented, with a blunt end ( Fig. 7)................................................... E. rubripes - MS discrete, almost absent. Prosoma dorsal face bearing a vertical row of tiny dark granules or a vertical dark stripe. Median posterior opisthosomal projection horizontally oriented, with end split in smaller tubercles ( Fig. 11)............. E. planus