Epicadinus is a genus of crab spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1895.

Species it contains four species found from Mexico to Brazil: Epicadinus biocellatus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil Epicadinus spinipes (Blackwall, 1862) – Brazil Epicadinus trispinosus (Taczanowski, 1872) (type) – Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Brazil Epicadinus villosus Mello-Leitão, 1929 – Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina

Formerly included: E. tuberculatus Petrunkevitch, 1910 (Transferred to Epicadus)

In synonymy: E. albimaculatus Mello-Leitão, 1929 = Epicadinus spinipes (Blackwall, 1862) E. cornutus (Taczanowski, 1872) = Epicadinus trispinosus (Taczanowski, 1872) E. gavensis Soares, 1946 = Epicadinus spinipes (Blackwall, 1862) E. helenae Piza, 1936 = Epicadinus villosus Mello-Leitão, 1929 E. marmoratus Mello-Leitão, 1947 = Epicadinus villosus Mello-Leitão, 1929 E. trifidus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) = Epicadinus trispinosus (Taczanowski, 1872)

See also List of Thomisidae species

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