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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-
24 species for
Columbus County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus bicentenarius
lichenmarked orbweaver
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Cyclosa turbinata
humped trashline orbweaver
Eustala anastera
Humpbacked orbweaver
Mecynogea lemniscata
Basilica orbweaver
Micrathena sagittata
Arrowshaped Micrathena
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
Neoscona domiciliorum
a spotted orbweaver
Eriophora ravilla
Tropical Orbweaver
Armoured harvestmen
COSMETIDAE
Vonones sayi
Say's Armored Harvestman
No Colloquial Name
HALONOPROCTIDAE
Ummidia audouini
a cork-lid trapdoor spider
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Varacosa avara
a wolf spider
No Colloquial Name
NEPHILIDAE
Trichonephila clavipes
Golden Silk orbweaver
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Dolomedes tenebrosus
Dark fishing spider
Dolomedes triton
Six-spotted fishing spider
Pisaurina mira
nursery web spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Habronattus notialis
a jumping spider
Colonus sylvanus
a jumping spider
No Colloquial Name
SCLEROSOMATIDAE
Leiobunum uxorium
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Leucauge argyrobapta
a longjawed orbweaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Phylloneta pictipes
a cobweb spider
Steatoda grossa
false black widow
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Misumenoides formosipes
whitebanded crab spider
No Colloquial Name
VAEJOVIDAE
Vaejovis carolinianus
Southern Unstriped Scorpion