| Pimoidae Temporal range:
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| Pimoa altioculata in Seattle, USA | |
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| male Pimoa rupicola in France | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pimoidae Wunderlich, 1986 |
| Diversity | |
| 2 genera, 87 species[1] | |
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| blue: reported countries (WSC) green: observation hotspots (iNaturalist) | |
Pimoidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders first described by Jörg Wunderlich in 1986.[2] As re-circumscribed in 2021, it is monophyletic,[1] and contained around 90 species in two genera.[3] It is closely related to the Linyphiidae,[1][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.[1]
Genera and species
As of January 2026[update], this family includes two genera and 87 species:[6]
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. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2026-01-17.
External links
- Citizen science observations for Pimoidae at iNaturalist
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