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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
32 species for
Camden County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Acanthepeira stellata
Star-bellied orb weaver
Araneus marmoreus
Marbled orbweaver
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Spinybacked orbweaver
Mangora placida
tuftlegged orbweaver
Mecynogea lemniscata
Basilica orbweaver
Micrathena mitrata
white micrathena
Micrathena sagittata
Arrowshaped Micrathena
Verrucosa arenata
an orb weaver
Purseweb Spiders
ATYPIDAE
Sphodros rufipes
redlegged purseweb spider
Armoured harvestmen
COSMETIDAE
Libitioides sayi
Say's Armored Harvestman
Ground Spiders
GNAPHOSIDAE
Herpyllus ecclesiasticus
Parson spider
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Hogna frondicola
a wolf spider
Pirate spiders
MIMETIDAE
Mimetus puritanus
a pirate spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Peucetia viridans
green lynx spider
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus rufus
a running crab spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Dolomedes tenebrosus
Dark fishing spider
Dolomedes triton
Six-spotted fishing spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Eris militaris
Bronze jumping spider
Habronattus decorus
a jumping spider
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Maevia inclemens
Dimorphic jumping spider
Paraphidippus aurantius
Emerald jumping spider
Phidippus audax
Bold jumper, Daring jumping spider
Phidippus otiosus
a jumping spider
Phidippus princeps
a jumping spider
Phidippus putnami
a jumping spider
Phidippus whitmani
Whitman's jumping spider
Platycryptus undatus
a jumping spider
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Misumenoides formosipes
whitebanded crab spider
Xysticus elegans
Elegant crab spider
Xysticus triguttatus
a ground crab spider