Pimoa

Pimoa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Pimoidae
Genus:	Pimoa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943
Species
see text

Pimoa is a genus of spiders in the Pimoidae family. Its sister genus is Nanoa.

Etymology

Pimoa is derived from the language of the Gosiute people in Utah with the meaning "big legs". The other genera in the family match its ending ("-oa").^[1]

Distribution

See the description under Pimoidae.

Species

• Pimoa altioculata (Keyserling, 1886) – USA, Canada, Alaska
• Pimoa anatolica Hormiga, 1994 – China
• Pimoa breuili (Fage, 1931) – Spain
• Pimoa breviata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA
• Pimoa crispa (Fage, 1946) – India
• Pimoa cthulhu Hormiga, 1994 – USA
• Pimoa curvata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA
• Pimoa edenticulata Hormiga, 1994 – USA
• Pimoa gandhii Hormiga, 1994 – India
• Pimoa haden Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 – USA
• Pimoa hespera (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) – USA
• Pimoa indiscreta Hormiga, 1994 – India
• Pimoa jellisoni (Gertsch & Ivie, 1936) – USA
• Pimoa laurae Hormiga, 1994 – USA
• Pimoa lihengae Griswold, Long & Hormiga, 1999 – China
• Pimoa mephitis Hormiga, 1994 – USA
• Pimoa mono Hormiga, 1994 – USA
• Pimoa nematoides Hormiga, 1994 – Nepal
• Pimoa petita Hormiga, 1994 – USA
• Pimoa rupicola (Simon, 1884) – France, Italy
• Pimoa sinuosa Hormiga, 1994 – Nepal
• Pimoa vera Gertsch, 1951 – USA

References

1. Hormiga, G.; Buckle, D. J.; Scharff, N. (2005). "Nanoa, an enigmatic new genus of pimoid spiders from western North America (Pimoidae, Araneae)" (PDF). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (2): 249–262. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00192.x.

• Hormiga, G. (1994). "A revision and cladistic analysis of the spider family Pimoidae (Araneoidea: Araneae)" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 549: 1–104. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.549.