Family of spiders
Pimoidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders first described by Jörg Wunderlich in 1986.[ 2] re-circumscribed in 2021, it is monophyletic ,[ 1] [ 3] Linyphiidae ,[ 1] [ 4] [ 5]
The species Pimoa cthulhu 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
[update] World Spider Catalog accepted the following genera and species:[ 6]
Nanoa Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005
Pimoa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 — North America, Asia, Europe
Pimoa altioculata (Keyserling, 1886) – USA, CanadaPimoa anatolica Hormiga, 1994 – ChinaPimoa anning Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa binchuanensis Zhang & Li, 2019 – ChinaPimoa bomi Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa breuili (Fage, 1931) – SpainPimoa breviata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USAPimoa cawarong Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa clavata Xu & Li, 2007 – ChinaPimoa cona Zhang & Li, 2020 – ChinaPimoa crispa (Fage, 1946) – IndiaPimoa cthulhu Hormiga, 1994 – USAPimoa curvata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USAPimoa daman Zhang & Li, 2021 – NepalPimoa danba Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa delphinica Mammola, Hormiga & Isaia, 2016 – ItalyPimoa deqen Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa dongjiu Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa duiba Zhang & Li, 2020 – ChinaPimoa edenticulata Hormiga, 1994 – USAPimoa exigua Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2021 – ChinaPimoa gagna Zhang & Li, 2021 – IndiaPimoa gandhii Hormiga, 1994 – IndiaPimoa graphitica Mammola, Hormiga & Isaia, 2016 – Italy, FrancePimoa guiqing Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa gyaca Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa gyara Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa gyirong Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa haden Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USAPimoa heishui Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa hespera (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) (type species ) – USAPimoa indiscreta Hormiga, 1994 – IndiaPimoa jellisoni (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) – USAPimoa jinchuan Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa khaptad Zhang & Li, 2021 – NepalPimoa koshi Zhang & Li, 2021 – NepalPimoa lata Xu & Li, 2009 – ChinaPimoa laurae Hormiga, 1994 – USAPimoa lemenba Zhang & Li, 2020 – ChinaPimoa lhatog Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa lihengae Griswold, Long & Hormiga, 1999 – ChinaPimoa mainling Zhang & Li, 2020 – ChinaPimoa mechi Zhang & Li, 2021 – NepalPimoa mephitis Hormiga, 1994 – USAPimoa miandam Zhang & Li, 2021 – PakistanPimoa miero Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa mono Hormiga, 1994 – USAPimoa mude Zhang & Li, 2021 – NepalPimoa muli Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa nainital Zhang & Li, 2021 – IndiaPimoa naran Zhang & Li, 2021 – PakistanPimoa nematoides Hormiga, 1994 – NepalPimoa ninglang Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa nyalam Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa nyingchi Zhang & Li, 2020 – ChinaPimoa petita Hormiga, 1994 – USAPimoa phaplu Zhang & Li, 2021 – NepalPimoa pingwuensis Irfan, Wang, Zhao & Zhang, 2022 – ChinaPimoa putou Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa rara Zhang & Li, 2021 – NepalPimoa reniformis Xu & Li, 2007 – ChinaPimoa rongxar Zhang & Li, 2020 – ChinaPimoa rupicola (Simon, 1884) – France, ItalyPimoa samyai Zhang & Li, 2020 – ChinaPimoa sangri Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa shigatse Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa shoja Zhang & Li, 2021 – IndiaPimoa sinuosa Hormiga, 1994 – NepalPimoa tehama Hormiga & Lew, 2014 – USAPimoa tengchong Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa thaleri Trotta, 2009 – IndiaPimoa trifurcata Xu & Li, 2007 – ChinaPimoa vera Gertsch, 1951 – USAPimoa wanglangensis Yuan, Zhao & Zhang, 2019 – ChinaPimoa wulipoensis Irfan, Wang & Zhang, 2021 – ChinaPimoa xiahe Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa xinjianensis Zhang & Li, 2019 – ChinaPimoa yadong Zhang & Li, 2020 – ChinaPimoa yajiangensis Irfan, Wang, Zhao & Zhang, 2022 – ChinaPimoa yejiei Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa yele Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa zayu Zhang & Li, 2021 – ChinaPimoa zekogensis Irfan, Wang, Zhao & Zhang, 2022 – ChinaPimoa zeluni Lin & Li, 2023 – ChinaPimoa zhigangi Zhang & Li, 2021 – China
References
^ a b c d 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 . S2CID 238681925 . ^ Wunderlich, J. (1986). Spinnenfauna gestern und heute: Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und ihre heute lebenden Verwandten . ^ "Currently valid spider genera and species" . World Spider Catalog . Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2022-04-23 .^ a b Hormiga, Gustavo (1994). "A Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Spider Family Pimoidae (Araneoidea: Araneae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology . 549 : 533– 542. ^ Murphy, J. A.; Roberts, M. J. (2015). Spider families of the world and their spinnerets . British Arachnological Society. ISBN 978-0950009377 ^ "Family: Pimoidae Wunderlich, 1986" . World Spider Catalog . Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2022-04-22 .
