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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Pimoidae » Pimoa » Pimoa altioculata
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Spider and eggs - Pimoa altioculata - female
Copyright © 2009 Phil Huntley-Franck

Spider and eggs - Pimoa altioculata - Female
Elkton, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
May 15, 2009
Size: 7mm
Unknown spider with eggs. . . and babies.

Mom disappeared a few days before the little ones hatched.

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Spider and eggs - Pimoa altioculata - female Spider and eggs - Pimoa altioculata - female Spider and eggs - Pimoa altioculata - female
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Contributed by Phil Huntley-Franck on 20 June, 2009 - 10:51pm
Last updated 4 April, 2011 - 9:13am

Moved
Moved from Pimoa. ID by Rod Crawford.
… Lynette Elliott, 4 April, 2011 - 9:13am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from True Spiders.
… Lynette Elliott, 21 June, 2009 - 9:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Timing . . .
Talk about timing - I just went to the Pimoa images to transfer this submission when . . . you must have beaten me by just a hair.

Thanks, and thanks for the ID, too.

:-P)
… Phil Huntley-Franck, 21 June, 2009 - 10:07pm login or register to post comments

Nice shots
I would guess (without seeing the back of the adult female) that these are something in the Pimoidae, probably Pimoa. See other images here.
… Lynette Elliott, 21 June, 2009 - 12:28am login or register to post comments

 
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Pimoa females have this large scapus? (At least I think I can also see it on some of the images you made reference to.)

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 21 June, 2009 - 8:16am login or register to post comments

 
I thought that was a foot :)
Pimoa used to be placed in the sheetweb spiders, and in Levi's Golden Guide it is placed physically near Lepthyphantes which clearly has the scapus. It does not show the scapus on Pimoa and I don't see it on the images in the guide. So now I'm not sure about Pimoa.
… Lynette Elliott, 21 June, 2009 - 10:09am login or register to post comments

 
Yes, Pimoa females do have a scape
I came across this page via a link to it... and I've been reading Hormiga's publication lately because I found a male Pimoa last month. I finally got it ID'd but was sad that it was just another P. altiocalata like the rest of the ones in the guide. Maybe next time.
… Mandy Howe, 15 February, 2010 - 4:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Pimoa
> So now I'm not sure about Pimoa

I guess the image I saw with what looked like a scapus was one from Shaun Ivory:
http://www.ivory.org/spiders/pimoa.sp.html

So, my gut feeling was that you were spot on with this -- with their spines, they remind me a little of the Ero/Mimetus spiders.

-K
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 21 June, 2009 - 2:02pm login or register to post comments

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