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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
19 species for
Edgecombe County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Funnel Weavers
AGELENIDAE
Barronopsis texana
a funnel weaver
Ghost Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE
Anyphaena fraterna
a ghost spider
Anyphaena pectorosa
a ghost spider
Arachosia cubana
a ghost spider
Hibana gracilis
garden ghost spider
Wulfila albens
a ghost spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus marmoreus
Marbled orbweaver
Larinioides cornutus
Furrow orbweaver
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
No Colloquial Name
CHEIRACANTHIIDAE
Cheiracanthium inclusum
agrarian sac spider
Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders
LINYPHIIDAE
Frontinella pyramitela
bowl and doily weaver
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus rufus
a running crab spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Eris militaris
Bronze jumping spider
Hentzia palmarum
Longjawed jumping spider
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Pelegrina exigua
a jumping spider
Phidippus audax
Bold jumper, Daring jumping spider
Colonus sylvanus
a jumping spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Tetragnatha laboriosa
silver longjawed orbweaver