Trechaleidae (tre-kah-LEE-ih-dee) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890,[2] and includes about 140 described species in 16 genera.[1] They all live in Central and South America except for Shinobius orientalis, which is endemic to Japan.[3] Other names for the family are longlegged water spiders and fishing spiders.[4]