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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
ARGYRONETIDAE-
ATYPIDAE-Purseweb Spiders
BUTHIDAE-
CADDIDAE-
CHEIRACANTHIIDAE-
CHEIRIDIIDAE-
CHELIFERIDAE-
CHERNETIDAE-
CHTHONIIDAE-
CICURINIDAE-
CLUBIONIDAE-Sac Spiders
CORINNIDAE-Antmimics and Ground Sac Spiders
COSMETIDAE-Armoured harvestmen
CTENIDAE-Wandering Spiders
CYBAEIDAE-
DEINOPIDAE-Ogrefaced spider
DESIDAE-
DICTYNIDAE-Mesh Web Weavers
DOLOMEDIDAE-
DYSDERIDAE-
EUCTENIZIDAE-Wafer-lid Trapdoor Spiders
FILISTATIDAE-
GARYPINIDAE-
GNAPHOSIDAE-Ground Spiders
HAHNIIDAE-
HALONOPROCTIDAE-
HYPOCHILIDAE-
LARCIDAE-
LATHYIDAE-
LEPTONETIDAE-
LINYPHIIDAE-Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders
LIOCRANIDAE-Liocranid Sac Spiders
LYCOSIDAE-Wolf Spiders
MICROHEXURIDAE-
MIMETIDAE-Pirate spiders
MITURGIDAE-Prowling 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-
ZOROPSIDAE-False Wolf Spiders & Wandering Spiders
30 species for
Bertie County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
No Colloquial Name
Ghost Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE
Anyphaena fraterna
a ghost spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus marmoreus
Marbled orbweaver
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Cyclosa conica
a trashline spider
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Spinybacked orbweaver
Larinia directa
an orbweaver
Mangora placida
tuftlegged orbweaver
Micrathena mitrata
white micrathena
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
Neoscona crucifera
Spotted Orbweaver
Verrucosa arenata
an orb weaver
No Colloquial Name
CHEIRACANTHIIDAE
Cheiracanthium inclusum
agrarian sac spider
DOLOMEDIDAE
Dolomedes albineus
whitebanded fishing spider
Dolomedes tenebrosus
Dark fishing spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Oxyopes salticus
striped lynx spider
Peucetia viridans
green lynx spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Hentzia palmarum
Longjawed jumping spider
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Pelegrina proterva
a jumping spider
No Colloquial Name
SCLEROSOMATIDAE
Leiobunum aldrichi
Leiobunum formosum
Leiobunum verrucosum
Leiobunum vittatum
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Tetragnatha laboriosa
silver longjawed orbweaver
Leucauge argyrobapta
a longjawed orbweaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Latrodectus mactans
Southern black widow
Theridion frondeum
a cobweb spider
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Misumenoides formosipes
whitebanded crab spider
Tmarus angulatus
a crab spider