Family: Pimoidae Wunderlich, 1986 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0031] Back

Gen. Pimoa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00811 ]
N.B.: transferred from the Metidae=Tetragnathidae to the Linyphiidae by Wunderlich, 1979a: 411 and Wunderlich, 1986: 119, transferred here from the Linyphiidae and considered a senior synonym of Louisfagea Brignoli, 1971d: 161 (replacement name for Metella Fage, 1931, preoccupied, transferred from the Metidae=Tetragnathidae to the Linyphiidae by Wunderlich, 1986: 119) by Hormiga, 1993: 534; Wunderlich's (Wunderlich, 1979a: 411) synonymy of both Pimoa and Louisfagea with the fossil genus Acrometa Petrunkevitch, 1942 was rejected by Brignoli, 1979o: 36.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2023-01-19
Described in
Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943: 9 (type Labulla hespera Gertsch & Ivie, 1936; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
85accepted
1synonym
Reference

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1943). New genera and species of North American linyphiid spiders. Bulletin of the University of Utah 33(10): 1-39. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2021-04-10 Genus synonymy Hormiga, 1993 Louisfagea synonymized with Pimoa