Pimoidae

Taxobox
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
superfamilia = Araneoidea
familia = Pimoidae
familia_authority = Wunderlich, 1986
diversity_link = List of Pimoidae species
diversity = 3 genera, 25 species
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subdivision_ranks = Genera
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The Pimoidae spider family is a rather small group of 25 species in three genera. They are monophyletic, and probably closest related to the Linyphiidae [Hormiga 1994] .

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.

Genera

*"Nanoa" Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005:* "Nanoa enana" Hormiga, Buckle & Scharff, 2005 — USA

* "Pimoa" Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 — North America, Asia, Europe (22 species)

*"Weintrauboa" Hormiga, 2003:* "Weintrauboa chikunii" (Oi, 1979) — Russia, Japan:* "Weintrauboa contortipes" (Karsch, 1881) — Russia, Japan

ee also

* List of Pimoidae species
* Spider families

Footnotes

References

* (1994): A Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Spider Family Pimoidae (Araneoidea: Araneae). "Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology" 549.
* (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. [http://www.gwu.edu/~spiders/content/publications/Hormiga%20ZJLS%202003.pdf PDF]
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".