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Pimoidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Arachnida

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Spider

Subphylum
  
Chelicerata

Infraorder
  
Araneomorphae

Rank
  
Family

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Similar
  
Synotaxidae, Cycloctenidae, Stenochilidae, Cithaeronidae, Senoculidae

The Pimoidae spider family is a rather small group of 37 species in four genera. They are monophyletic, and possibly closest related to the Linyphiidae.

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Distribution

The Pimoidae form a relictual group along the western coast of North America, Europe (Alps, Apennines and Cantabrian Mountains of northern Spain) and the Himalayas. This makes a holarctic predecessor probable. In 2003, a species was found in Japan. The species Pimoa cthulhu, described by Gustavo Hormiga in 1994, is named for Howard Phillips Lovecraft's mythological deity Cthulhu.

Genera

  • Nanoa Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005
  • Nanoa enana Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005 — USA
  • Pimoa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 — North America, Asia, Europe (27 species)
  • Putaoa Hormiga & Tu, 2008 — China
  • Putaoa huaping Hormiga & Tu, 2008 — China
  • Putaoa megacantha (Xu & Li, 2007) — China
  • Weintrauboa Hormiga, 2003 — China, Japan, Russia (7 species)
  • Weintrauboa chikunii (Oi, 1979) — Russia, Japan
  • Weintrauboa contortipes (Karsch, 1881) — Russia, Japan
  • Pimoidae : Pimoidae page on Tree of Life Web Project.

    • References

    Pimoidae Wikipedia
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