Kimulidae is a small neotropical family of the harvestman infraorder Grassatores

Grassatores

Grassatores is the most diverse infraorder of the Laniatores. It includes over 3,500 species distributed mainly in the World Tropics...

 with about thirty described species.

Distribution

Whereas most species occur in Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

 and the West Indies, the isolated species Tegipiolus pachypus (which was formerly in Zalmoxidae

Zalmoxidae

The Zalmoxidae are a family of harvestmen within the suborder Laniatores.-Description:Zalmoxidae are small Laniatores of dark brown to dark yellow color with varied darker mottling. Some small edaphic species are pale yellowish.-Distribution:...

) is found in northeastern Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. This species also differs from the others morphologically. Another Brazilian species, Microminua soerenseni Rio de Janeiro, does not belong to this family.

Name

This family was originally called Minuidae, but as the name of the type genus proved invalid, the family name needed a replacement.

Species

• Acanthominua Sørensen, 1932
• Acanthominua tricarinata Sørensen, 1932 — Venezuela

• Euminua Sørensen, 1932
• Euminua brevitarsa Sørensen, 1932 — Venezuela

• Euminuoides Mello-Leitão, 1935
• Euminuoides longitarsa (Sørensen, 1932) — Venezuela

• Fudeci M. A. González-Sponga, 1997
• Fudeci curvifemur González-Sponga, 1997 — Venezuela

• Jimeneziella Avram, 1970 — Cuba
• Jimeneziella decui Avram, 1970
• Jimeneziella negreai Avram, 1970

• Kimula Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942
• Kimula banksi Silhavy, 1969 — Cuba
• Kimula cokendopheri Perez-Gonzalez & Armas, 2000 — Dominican Republic
• Kimula elongata Goodnight & Goodnight, 1942 — Puerto Rico
• Kimula goodnightiorum Silhavy, 1969 — Cuba
• Kimula levii Silhavy, 1969 — Cuba
• Kimula tuberculata Goodnight & Goodnight, 1943 — Cuba
• Kimula turquinensis Silhavy, 1969 — Cuba
• Kimula botosaneanui S. Avram, 1973 — Cuba

• Microminua Sørensen, 1932
• Microminua parvula Sørensen, 1932 — Venezuela
• Microminua soerenseni H. E. M. Soares & B. A. Soares, 1954 — Brazil (Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro
  Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
  
  ) (not Kimulidae, probably Gonyleptidae
  Gonyleptidae
  Gonyleptidae is a Neotropical family of harvestmen with more than 800 species, the largest in the Suborder Laniatores and the second largest of the Opiiones as a whole...
  
  , Tricommatinae)

• Minua Sørensen, 1932 — Venezuela
• Minua barloventensis (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987)
• Minua choroniensis (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987)
• Minua crassa (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987)
• Minua denticulata (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987)
• Minua dimorpha Sørensen, 1932
• Minua elias Sørensen, 1932
• Minua guatopensis (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987)
• Minua montis (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987)
• Minua nebulae (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987)
• Minua parva (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987)
• Minua pinturelensis (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987)
• Minua punctiacuta (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987)
• Minua scabra Sørensen, 1932
• Minua venefica (M. A. González-Sponga, 1987)

• Pseudominua Mello-Leitão, 1933
• Pseudominua convolvulus (Sørensen, 1932) — Venezuela
• Pseudominua peruviana Roewer, 1963 — Peru

• Tegipiolus Roewer, 1949
• Tegipiolus pachypus Roewer, 1949 — Brazil