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Pimoidae  Wunderlich, 1986 / Pimoa  Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943   4 species

Pimoa rupicola (Simon, 1884)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009305

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Description
Male palp with semicircular embolic area. Cymbium flat, circular, with unusual modifications on retrolateral margin. Embolus with 3 processes. Paracymbium no discrete sclerite.
Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France, Italy
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Thaler 1976b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pesarini unpubl.)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler 1976b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler 1976b)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Thaler 1976b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Isaia et al. 2011)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Brignoli 1971d)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1971d)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Mammola et al. 2016)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Mammola et al. 2016)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral-ventral view
(Mammola et al. 2016)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Mammola et al. 2016)

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female Epigyne
(Pesarini unpubl.)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Isaia et al. 2011)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Brignoli 1971d)

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female Epigyne, caudal view
(Mammola et al. 2016)

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female Epigyne, caudal view
(Mammola et al. 2016)

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female Vulva
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

Opisthosoma, lateral view
(Isaia et al. 2011)

Distribution List
France   (Mammola et al., 2016; Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025; Mammola et al., 2016) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1971d) Note su ragni cavernicoli italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 121-229 pdf

Isaia M, Lana E, Paschetta M, Pantini P, Schönhofer A L, Christian E, Badino G (2011) Aracnidi sotterranei delle Alpi Occidentali italiane (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones)/ Subterranean Arachnids of the Western Italian Alps (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones). Monografie Del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Torino 47: 1-325 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Mammola S, Hormiga G, Arnedo M A, Isaia M (2016) Unexpected diversity in the relictual European spiders of the genus Pimoa (Araneae : Pimoidae). Invertebrate Systematics 30: 566-587 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Pesarini C (unpubl.)

Thaler K (1976b) Two remarkable relict Arachnids from northern Italy:  Sabacon simoni Dresco (Opiliones: Ischyropsalididae), Louisfaga rupicola (Simon) (Araneae: Tetragnathidae?). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3: 205-210 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
05-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
18-01-2019 Image insert
14-05-2013 Image insert