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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-
31 species for
Dare County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Funnel Weavers
AGELENIDAE
Barronopsis texana
a funnel weaver
Ghost Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE
Anyphaena celer
a ghost spider
Hibana gracilis
garden ghost spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Spinybacked orbweaver
Micrathena sagittata
Arrowshaped Micrathena
No Colloquial Name
BUTHIDAE
Centruroides vittatus
Striped Bark Scorpion
Ground Spiders
GNAPHOSIDAE
Micaria longipes
an antlike ground spider
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Arctosa littoralis
Shoreline wolf spider
Hogna antelucana
a wolf spider
Hogna lenta
Field wolf spider
Rabidosa carrana
a wolf spider
Tigrosa helluo
a wolf spider
Geolycosa pikei
a burrowing wolf spider
No Colloquial Name
NEPHILIDAE
Trichonephila clavipes
Golden Silk orbweaver
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus floridensis
a running crab spider
No Colloquial Name
PHOLCIDAE
Pholcus phalangioides
Longbodied cellar spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Phidippus audax
Bold jumper, Daring jumping spider
Phidippus otiosus
Canopy jumping spider
Phidippus whitmani
Whitman's jumping spider
Colonus sylvanus
a jumping spider
Zygoballus rufipes
Hammerjawed jumping spider
Metacyrba floridana
a jumping spider
No Colloquial Name
SCYTODIDAE
Scytodes thoracica
a spitting spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Leucauge argyrobapta
a longjawed orbweaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Latrodectus mactans
Southern black widow
Latrodectus variolus
Northern black widow
Theridion glaucescens
a cobweb spider
Latrodectus unidentified species
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Xysticus ferox
a ground crab spider