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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-
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
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
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
18 species for
Caldwell County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Folding Trapdoor Spiders
ANTRODIAETIDAE
Antrodiaetus unicolor
a foldingdoor spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Acacesia hamata
difoliate orbweaver
Araneus nordmanni
an orbweaver
Micrathena mitrata
white micrathena
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
Wandering Spiders
CTENIDAE
Anahita punctulata
a wandering spider
Ground Spiders
GNAPHOSIDAE
Zelotes unidentified species
No Colloquial Name
HYPOCHILIDAE
Hypochilus pococki - northeast clade
A Lampshade Spider
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Pirata aspirans
a pirate wolf spider
No Colloquial Name
MICROHEXURIDAE
Microhexura montivaga
Spruce-fir Moss Spider
Prowling Spiders
MITURGIDAE
Zora pumila
a prowling spider
Scaffold Web Spiders
NESTICIDAE
Nesticus carolinensis
Linville Caverns Spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Peucetia viridans
green lynx spider
Armoured harvestmen
PHALANGODIDAE
Bishopella laciniosa
No Colloquial Name
PHRUROLITHIDAE
Phrurotimpus palustris
a phrurolithid
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Sassacus papenhoei
a jumping spider
Tutelina harti
a jumping spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Meta ovalis
Cave longjawed orbweaver