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

Pimoa rupicola  (Simon, 1884)

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 2024): France, Italy
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

France   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) |||
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

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, 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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 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 (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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