Pimoidae

Short description: Family of spiders

Pimoidae

Temporal range: Palaeogene–present

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Pimoidae
Wunderlich, 1986
Diversity
2 genera, 85 species[1]

Pimoidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders first described by J. Wunderlich in 1986.[2] As re-circumscribed in 2021, it is monophyletic,[1] and contained 85 species in two genera.[3] It is closely related to the Linyphiidae,[1][4] and is sometimes treated as synonymous with that family.[5]

The species Pimoa cthulhu, described by Gustavo Hormiga in 1994, is named for Howard Phillips Lovecraft's mythological deity Cthulhu.[4]

## Distribution

The ancestors of the family are thought to have been widely distributed across the Palearctic, Nearctic and Sino-Japanese regions, but species now have a more fragmented distribution.[1]

## Genera and species

As of April 2022[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera and species:[6]

* Nanoa Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005
* Nanoa enana Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005 — USA
* Pimoa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 — North America, Asia, Europe
* Pimoa altioculata (Keyserling, 1886) – USA, Canada
* Pimoa anatolica Hormiga, 1994 – China
* Pimoa anning Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa binchuanensis Zhang & Li, 2019 – China
* Pimoa bomi Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa breuili (Fage, 1931) – Spain
* Pimoa breviata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA
* Pimoa cawarong Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa clavata Xu & Li, 2007 – China
* Pimoa cona Zhang & Li, 2020 – China
* Pimoa crispa (Fage, 1946) – India
* Pimoa cthulhu Hormiga, 1994 – USA
* Pimoa curvata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA
* Pimoa daman Zhang & Li, 2021 – Nepal
* Pimoa danba Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa delphinica Mammola, Hormiga & Isaia, 2016 – Italy
* Pimoa deqen Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa dongjiu Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa duiba Zhang & Li, 2020 – China
* Pimoa edenticulata Hormiga, 1994 – USA
* Pimoa exigua Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2021 – China
* Pimoa gagna Zhang & Li, 2021 – India
* Pimoa gandhii Hormiga, 1994 – India
* Pimoa graphitica Mammola, Hormiga & Isaia, 2016 – Italy, France
* Pimoa guiqing Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa gyaca Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa gyara Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa gyirong Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa haden Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA
* Pimoa heishui Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa hespera (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) (type species) – USA
* Pimoa indiscreta Hormiga, 1994 – India
* Pimoa jellisoni (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) – USA
* Pimoa jinchuan Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa khaptad Zhang & Li, 2021 – Nepal
* Pimoa koshi Zhang & Li, 2021 – Nepal
* Pimoa lata Xu & Li, 2009 – China
* Pimoa laurae Hormiga, 1994 – USA
* Pimoa lemenba Zhang & Li, 2020 – China
* Pimoa lhatog Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa lihengae Griswold, Long & Hormiga, 1999 – China
* Pimoa mainling Zhang & Li, 2020 – China
* Pimoa mechi Zhang & Li, 2021 – Nepal
* Pimoa mephitis Hormiga, 1994 – USA
* Pimoa miandam Zhang & Li, 2021 – Pakistan
* Pimoa miero Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa mono Hormiga, 1994 – USA
* Pimoa mude Zhang & Li, 2021 – Nepal
* Pimoa muli Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa nainital Zhang & Li, 2021 – India
* Pimoa naran Zhang & Li, 2021 – Pakistan
* Pimoa nematoides Hormiga, 1994 – Nepal
* Pimoa ninglang Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa nyalam Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa nyingchi Zhang & Li, 2020 – China
* Pimoa petita Hormiga, 1994 – USA
* Pimoa phaplu Zhang & Li, 2021 – Nepal
* Pimoa pingwuensis Irfan, Wang, Zhao & Zhang, 2022 – China
* Pimoa putou Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa rara Zhang & Li, 2021 – Nepal
* Pimoa reniformis Xu & Li, 2007 – China
* Pimoa rongxar Zhang & Li, 2020 – China
* Pimoa rupicola (Simon, 1884) – France, Italy
* Pimoa samyai Zhang & Li, 2020 – China
* Pimoa sangri Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa shigatse Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa shoja Zhang & Li, 2021 – India
* Pimoa sinuosa Hormiga, 1994 – Nepal
* Pimoa tehama Hormiga & Lew, 2014 – USA
* Pimoa tengchong Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa thaleri Trotta, 2009 – India
* Pimoa trifurcata Xu & Li, 2007 – China
* Pimoa vera Gertsch, 1951 – USA
* Pimoa wanglangensis Yuan, Zhao & Zhang, 2019 – China
* Pimoa wulipoensis Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2021 – China
* Pimoa xiahe Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa xinjianensis Zhang & Li, 2019 – China
* Pimoa yadong Zhang & Li, 2020 – China
* Pimoa yajiangensis Irfan, Wang, Zhao & Zhang, 2022 – China
* Pimoa yejiei Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa yele Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa zayu Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
* Pimoa zekogensis Irfan, Wang, Zhao & Zhang, 2022 – China
* Pimoa zhigangi Zhang & Li, 2021 – China

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Hormiga, Gustavo; Kulkarni, Siddharth; da Silva Moreira, Thiago; Dimitrov, Dimitar (2021). "Molecular phylogeny of pimoid spiders and the limits of Linyphiidae, with a reassessment of male palpal homologies (Araneae, Pimoidae)". Zootaxa 5026 (1): 71–101. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5026.1.3. PMID 34810940.
2. ↑ Wunderlich, J. (1986). Spinnenfauna gestern und heute: Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und ihre heute lebenden Verwandten.
3. ↑ "Currently valid spider genera and species". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/statistics/.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hormiga, Gustavo (1994). "A Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Spider Family Pimoidae (Araneoidea: Araneae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 549: 533–542.
5. ↑ Murphy, J. A.; Roberts, M. J. (2015). Spider families of the world and their spinnerets. British Arachnological Society. ISBN 978-0950009377.
6. ↑ "Family: Pimoidae Wunderlich, 1986". Natural History Museum Bern. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/family/78.

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