Pimoidae
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Pimoidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders first described by Jörg Wunderlich in 1986.[1] As re-circumscribed in 2021, it is monophyletic,[2] and contained around 90 species in two genera.[3] It is closely related to the Linyphiidae,[2][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.[2]
Genera
As of January 2026[update], this family includes two genera and 87 species:[6]
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References
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wunderlich, J. (1986). Spinnenfauna gestern und heute: Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und ihre heute lebenden Verwandten.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Families". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hormiga, Gustavo (1994). "A Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Spider Family Pimoidae (Araneoidea: Araneae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 549: 533–542.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Murphy, J. A.; Roberts, M. J. (2015). Spider families of the world and their spinnerets. British Arachnological Society. ISBN 978-0950009377.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Family Pimoidae Wunderlich, 1986". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-01-17.
External links
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