Arachnids of North Carolina
Home Page
Common Spiders of NC
Recent Entries
Recent Account Updates
County Searches
General Search
Submit a Public Record
References
Maps
Checklist
NC Biodiversity Project
Order:
Araneae - Spiders
Opiliones - Harvestmen
Pseudoscorpiones - Pseudoscorpions
Scorpiones - Scorpions
Scientific Name:
Common Name:
Family (Alpha):
ACROPSOPILIONIDAE-
AGELENIDAE-Funnel Weavers
AMAUROBIIDAE-Hacklemesh Weavers
ANTRODIAETIDAE-Folding Trapdoor Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE-Ghost Spiders
ARANEIDAE-Orb Weavers
ATYPIDAE-Purseweb Spiders
BUTHIDAE-
CADDIDAE-
CHEIRACANTHIIDAE-
CHEIRIDIIDAE-
CHELIFERIDAE-
CHERNETIDAE-
CHTHONIIDAE-
CLUBIONIDAE-Sac Spiders
CORINNIDAE-Antmimics and Ground Sac Spiders
COSMETIDAE-Armoured harvestmen
CTENIDAE-Wandering Spiders
CYBAEIDAE-
DEINOPIDAE-Ogrefaced spider
DESIDAE-
DICTYNIDAE-Mesh Web Weavers
DYSDERIDAE-
EUCTENIZIDAE-Wafer-lid Trapdoor Spiders
FILISTATIDAE-
GARYPINIDAE-
GNAPHOSIDAE-Ground Spiders
HAHNIIDAE-
HALONOPROCTIDAE-
HYPOCHILIDAE-
LARCIDAE-
LEPTONETIDAE-
LINYPHIIDAE-Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders
LIOCRANIDAE-Liocranid Sac Spiders
LYCOSIDAE-Wolf Spiders
MICROHEXURIDAE-
MIMETIDAE-Pirate spiders
MYSMENIDAE-
NEOBISIIDAE-
NEPHILIDAE-
NESTICIDAE-Scaffold Web Spiders
OECOBIIDAE-Wall spiders
OONOPIDAE-
OXYOPIDAE-Lynx Spiders
PHALANGIIDAE-
PHALANGODIDAE-Armoured harvestmen
PHILODROMIDAE-Running Crab Spiders
PHOLCIDAE-
PHONOGNATHIDAE-
PHRUROLITHIDAE-
PISAURIDAE-Nursery Web Spiders
SABACONIDAE-
SALTICIDAE-Jumping Spiders
SCLEROSOMATIDAE-
SCYTODIDAE-
SEGESTRIIDAE-
SICARIIDAE-
SPARASSIDAE-Giant Crab Spiders
STERNOPHORIDAE-
TARACIDAE-
TETRAGNATHIDAE-Long-jawed Orb Weavers
THERIDIIDAE-Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIOSOMATIDAE-Ray Spiders
THOMISIDAE-Crab Spiders
TITANOECIDAE-
TRACHELIDAE-
TRIAENONYCHIDAE-Armoured harvestmen
TRIDENCHTHONIIDAE-
ULOBORIDAE-Cribellate Orb Weavers
VAEJOVIDAE-
24 species for
Alamance County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus cingulatus
an orbweaver
Araneus marmoreus
Marbled orbweaver
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Cyclosa turbinata
humped trashline orbweaver
Micrathena mitrata
white micrathena
Micrathena sagittata
Arrowshaped Micrathena
Neoscona crucifera
a spotted orbweaver
No Colloquial Name
HALONOPROCTIDAE
Ummidia unidentified species
a corklid trapdoor spider
Ummidia audouini
a cork-lid trapdoor spider
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Geolycosa fatifera
Pardosa saxatilis
a thinlegged wolf spider
Rabidosa rabida
Rabid wolf spider
Trabeops aurantiacus
a wolf spider
Geolycosa turricola
a burrowing wolf spider
Pirata apalacheus
a pirate wolf spider
No Colloquial Name
PHOLCIDAE
Pholcus phalangioides
Longbodied cellar spider
PHRUROLITHIDAE
Phrurotimpus annulatus
a phrurolithid
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Pisaurina mira
nursery web spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Hentzia palmarum
Longjawed jumping spider
Paraphidippus aurantius
Emerald jumping spider
Phidippus putnami
a jumping spider
Phidippus whitmani
Whitman's jumping spider
Paramaevia hobbsae
a jumping spider
No Colloquial Name
SCLEROSOMATIDAE
Hadrobunus maculosus