Pimoidae
Pimoidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Pimoidae Wunderlich, 1986 |
Genera | |
See text. | |
Diversity | |
3 genera, 25 species | |
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.[1]
Contents
1 Distribution
2 Genera
3 See also
4 Footnotes
5 References
6 Resource Links
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.[2]
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
See also
- List of Pimoidae species
- Spider families
Footnotes
^ Hormiga 1994
^ Hormiga 1994
References
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Hormiga, Gustavo (1994): A Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Spider Family Pimoidae (Araneoidea: Araneae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 549.
Hormiga, Gustavo (2003): Weintrauboa, a new genus of pimoid spiders from Japan and adjacent islands, with comments on the monophyly and diagnosis of the family Pimoidae and the genus Pimoa (Araneoidea, Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139: 261-281. PDF
Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
Resource Links
Pimoidae : Pimoidae page on Tree of Life Web Project.
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