Arachnids of North Carolina
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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
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-
NESTICIDAE-Scaffold Web Spiders
OECOBIIDAE-Wall spiders
OONOPIDAE-
OXYOPIDAE-Lynx Spiders
PHALANGIIDAE-
PHALANGODIDAE-Armoured harvestmen
PHILODROMIDAE-Running Crab Spiders
PHOLCIDAE-
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-
21 species for
Bladen County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
No Colloquial Name
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Eustala anastera
Humpbacked orbweaver
Micrathena sagittata
Arrowshaped Micrathena
Trichonephila clavipes
Golden Silk orbweaver
Metazygia carolinalis
an orbweaver
Sac Spiders
CLUBIONIDAE
Elaver excepta
a sac spider
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Hogna lenta
Field wolf spider
Geolycosa pikei
a burrowing wolf spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Peucetia viridans
Green lynx spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Admestina tibialis
Anasaitis canosa
Twinflagged jumper
Sarinda hentzi
an antmimic jumping spider
No Colloquial Name
SCLEROSOMATIDAE
Hadrobunus maculosus
SEGESTRIIDAE
Ariadna bicolor
a tube-dwelling spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Leucauge argyrobapta
Mabel's Orchard Orb Weaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Neospintharus trigonum
a cobweb spider
Pholcomma barnesi
a cobweb spider
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Misumena vatia
Goldenrod crab spider
Synema parvulum
a crab spider
Cribellate Orb Weavers
ULOBORIDAE
Uloborus glomosus
Featherlegged orbweaver