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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Pimoidae » Pimoa

Genus Pimoa

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Pimoa altioculata female with eggsac - Pimoa altioculata - female

brown and black spider - Pimoa altioculata

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Pimoidae

Genus Pimoa

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Split from Labulla in 1943.

Numbers

13 species in the USA & Canada.

Identification

All females seem to have protruding epigynums.

P. altioculata - Epigyne distal end projecting (scape-like) and heavily sclerotized(1)

P. cthulhu - epigyne sausage-like(1)

P. vera - distal end of the epigyne rounded(1)

Egg Sac

Range

Ranges (1)

P. altioculata - all along the western parts of OR, WA, & Canada up into Alaska.

P. breviata - coastal northern CA & Southern OR

P. cthulhu - northwestern coastal CA

P. curvata - central Washington in a line along the Cascades

P. edenticulata - northwestern & NW coastal CA

P. haden - Idaho panhandle & bordering WA & MT

P. hespera - central eastern CA

P. jellisoni - Idaho panhandle (& western central ID) & bordering WA & MT

P. laurae - central eastern CA

P. mephitis - northwestern CA

P. mono - central eastern CA

P. petita - northwestern Oregon

P. vera - southern coastal Oregon

WA - P. altioculata, P. curvata and P. haden are the 3 species found in WA.

Works Cited

1.	A Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Spider Family Pimoidae (Araneoidea:Araneae) Gustavo Hormiga. 1994. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Smithsonian Institution Press #549.

Contributed by Christopher Hunt on 13 September, 2005 - 11:10am
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott, Jeff Hollenbeck, Chuck Entz
Last updated 23 March, 2015 - 7:41am

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