Family Pimoidae [13 species]
Pimoa Chamberlin & Ivie
1943 (gender feminine)
Type: Labulla hespera G&I 1936
SYN Metella Fage 1931
(preoccupied, type: Metella breuili
Fage 1931), Louisfagea Brignoli 1971 (nom. nov. for Metella Fage, preoccupied)
This genus was placed
provisionally in Tetragnathinae by Thaler (1976) and Wunderlich (1979a), and in
Metinae by Brignoli (1983). Wunderlich
(1979a) synonymized Pimoa and Louisfagea Brignoli 1971 with the fossil
genus Acrometa Petrunk. 1942. This synonymy was not accepted by Brignoli
(1979). Wunderlich (1986) repudiated
his 1979a synonymies and placed Pimoa
and its relatives in a new Linyphiid subfamily, the Pimoinae. Hormiga (1993, 1994a) treated Pimoa and Louisfagea as synonyms and elevated the Pimoniae to family status,
considering it to be a sister group of the Linyphiidae. He did not include Acrometa in the Pimoidae.
altioculata (Keys. 1886).
SYN utahana G&I 1936. G&I 1936, Ch&I 1943, Ch&I 1947,
Thaler 1976, Wunderlich 1979a, Crawford 1988, Hormiga 1994a. UT, CA, OR, WA, AK, BC
breviata Ch&I 1943.
Hormiga 1994a. CA, OR
cthulhu Hormiga 1994a. CA
curvata Ch&I 1943.
Crawford 1988, Hormiga 1994. OR,
WA
edenticulata Hormiga 1994a.
CA
haden Ch&I 1943.
Holmberg et al. 1984, Crawford 1988, Hormiga 1994a. MT, ID, WA, BC
hespera (G&I 1936).
Ch&I 1943, Hormiga 1994a. CA
jellisoni (G&I 1936).
Ch&I 1943, Hormiga 1994a.
MT, ID, WA
laurae Hormiga 1994a. CA
mephitis Hormiga 1994a. CA
mono Hormiga 1944a. CA
petita Hormiga 1994a. OR
vera Gertsch 1951. Hormiga
1994a. OR