Pinocchio Huber & Carvalho, 2019 Pinoquio is a monotypic genus of South American cellar spiders containing the single species, Pinoquio barauna.
A. Huber & L. S. Carvalho in 2019, after Pinocchio, whose famous nose reminded the authors of the projecting clypeus in P.
[2] However, this name turned out to be a junior homonym that had been used before, for the harvestman genus Pinocchio Mello-Leitão, 1940 (now considered a synonym of Bresslauius Mello-Leitão, 1935).
Therefore, the genus name was amended in 2022 to Pinoquio, which is the Portuguese spelling of the name of Collodi's famous character.
[3] This genus has only been found in Brazil.