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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-
18 species for
Craven County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus miniatus
Black-spotted Orbweaver
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Gea heptagon
an orbweaver
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Spinybacked orbweaver
Mangora placida
tuftlegged orbweaver
Mangora spiculata
an orbweaver
Micrathena sagittata
Arrowshaped Micrathena
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
Trichonephila clavipes
Golden Silk orbweaver
Metazygia carolinalis
an orbweaver
Sac Spiders
CLUBIONIDAE
Elaver excepta
a sac spider
No Colloquial Name
HALONOPROCTIDAE
Ummidia audouini
a cork-lid trapdoor spider
Pirate spiders
MIMETIDAE
Mimetus puritanus
a pirate spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Peucetia viridans
Green lynx spider
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus mineri
a running crab spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Pisaurina brevipes
a nursery web spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Synemosyna formica
an antmimic jumping spider
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Thymoites unimaculatus
a cobweb spider