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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-
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-
19 species for
Brunswick County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus miniatus
Black-spotted Orbweaver
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Spinybacked orbweaver
No Colloquial Name
BUTHIDAE
Centruroides hentzi
Hentz Striped Scorpion
Antmimics and Ground Sac Spiders
CORINNIDAE
Castianeira amoena
orange antmimic
Castianeira descripta
redspotted antmimic
No Colloquial Name
FILISTATIDAE
Kukulcania hibernalis
Southern house spider
HALONOPROCTIDAE
Ummidia rongodwini
a cork-lid trapdoor spider
NEPHILIDAE
Trichonephila clavipes
Golden Silk orbweaver
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Peucetia viridans
Green lynx spider
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus rufus
a running crab spider
No Colloquial Name
PHOLCIDAE
Pholcus phalangioides
Longbodied cellar spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Anasaitis canosa
Twinflagged jumper
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Phidippus whitmani
Whitman's jumping spider
Colonus sylvanus
a jumping spider
No Colloquial Name
SCYTODIDAE
Scytodes atlacoya
a spitting spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Leucauge argyrobapta
a longjawed orbweaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Parasteatoda tepidariorum
common house spider