Pimoidae
Family of spiders
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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]
| Pimoidae Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
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| Pimoa altioculata in Seattle, USA | |
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| male Pimoa rupicola in France | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pimoidae Wunderlich, 1986 |
| Diversity | |
| 2 genera, 87 species | |
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| blue: reported countries (WSC) green: observation hotspots (iNaturalist) | |
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]
