Epicadus rubripes Mello-Leitão, 1924

Machado, Miguel, Teixeira, Renato Augusto & Lise, Arno Antonio, 2018, There and back again: More on the taxonomy of the crab spiders genus Epicadus (Thomisidae: Stephanopinae), Zootaxa 4382 (3), pp. 501-530 : 516

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.4

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5951332

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scientific name

Epicadus rubripes Mello-Leitão, 1924
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Epicadus rubripes Mello-Leitão, 1924 View in CoL

Fig. 16C View FIGURE 16

Epicadus rubripes Mello-Leitão, 1924: 280 View in CoL . Mello-Leitão 1929: 96, fig. 45; Silva-Moreira & Machado 2016: 292, figs 1D–F, 7–10, 15G–I, 16E, F; Machado et al. 2017: 448, figs 2B, C, S 13F.

Epicadus pallidus Mello-Leitão, 1929: 97 View in CoL .

Other material examined. BRAZIL: Santa Catarina: 1 male, Concórdia, Rio Jacutinga , 27°15'53"S, 52°19'45"W, September 1988, Proj. Itá-Machadinho ( MCTP 527 View Materials ) GoogleMaps . Rio Grande do Sul: 1 female, Nova Prata , 28°47'02"S, 51°36'28"W, 3 Januaty 1989, F.C. Quadros ( MCTP 36572 View Materials ) GoogleMaps ; 1 female, Itaara, 29°34'60"S, 53°46'60"W, 19 December 2006, A.A. Lise (MCTP 21347); 2 males, Novo Hamburgo , 29°41'16"S, 51°08'00"W, 27 September 1986, C.J. Beckel ( MCTP 1081 View Materials ) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, Novo Cabrais, Parque Witeck, 29°46'59"S, 52°58'19"W, 7 November 2008, R.G. Buss (MCTP 28460); 1 male, Nova Santa Rita , 29°51'02"S, 51°16'26"W, 23 May 2009, A. Oliveira ( MCTP 37281 View Materials ) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, Viamão , 30°04'19"S, 51°05'49"W, December 1992, A.A. Lise ( MCTP 2828 View Materials ) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, 12 May 1995 (MCTP 7800); 1 male, Guaíba , 30°06'32"S, 51°19'25"W, 26 August 1994, A.A. Lise ( MCTP 5432 View Materials ) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, Cachoeira do Sul, Capané , 30°14'40"S, 52°57'40"W, 12 May 1993, R.G. Buss ( MCTP 3625 View Materials ) GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Females of E. rubripes are similar to those of E. heterogaster in their stout and vertically oriented MS and in the projections above the ALE. However, they can be recognized by their “mask” pattern, which is composed of a pair of vertical dark lines on the AME and a pair of diagonal ones going from ALE to the lateral margin of the clypeus, merging to form an entire dark clypeal margin ( Fig. 16C View FIGURE 16 ). They can also be distinguished from other species of the genus by their median posterior opisthosomal projection, which is much thicker and longer than the four lateral projections ( Fig. 16C View FIGURE 16 ). The males present vertical projections above the ALE as in E. heterogaster , however, their opisthosoma has only three projections and the same color pattern as in the males of E. taczanowskii and E. trituberculatus (see Silva-Moreira & Machado 2016: figs 9A–E). Their unique palp is characterized by the embolous emerging form tegulum at nine o’clock position and by RTA short and wide and DTA pointing to the apex of the cymbium (see Silva-Moreira & Machado 2016: figs 10A–E, 15I).

Description. See Silva-Moreira & Machado (2016).

Distribution. BRAZIL: Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina ( Fig. 17C View FIGURE 17 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Thomisidae

Genus

Epicadus

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Epicadus rubripes Mello-Leitão, 1924

Machado, Miguel, Teixeira, Renato Augusto & Lise, Arno Antonio 2018
2018
Loc

Epicadus rubripes Mello-Leitão, 1924 : 280

Mello-Leitão, 1924 : 280
Mello-Leitão 1929 : 96
Silva-Moreira & Machado 2016 : 292
Machado et al. 2017 : 448
Loc

Epicadus pallidus Mello-Leitão, 1929 : 97

Mello-Leitão, 1929 : 97
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