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Order:
Araneae - Spiders
Opiliones - Harvestmen
Pseudoscorpiones - Pseudoscorpions
Scorpiones - Scorpions
Scientific Name:
Common Name:
Family (Alpha):
ACROPSOPILIONIDAE-
ACTINOPODIDAE-
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-
20 species for
Forsyth County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus marmoreus
Marbled orbweaver
Argiope trifasciata
Banded garden spider, Banded Argiope
Mastophora bisaccata
Micrathena gracilis
Spined Micrathena, Five paired spider
Neoscona crucifera
a spotted orbweaver
Verrucosa arenata
an orb weaver
Antmimics and Ground Sac Spiders
CORINNIDAE
Castianeira unidentified species
an antmimic
Ground Spiders
GNAPHOSIDAE
Herpyllus ecclesiasticus
Parson spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Oxyopes salticus
Striped lynx spider
Peucetia viridans
Green lynx spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Pisaurina mira
nursery web spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Paraphidippus aurantius
Emerald jumping spider
Pelegrina galathea
a jumping spider
Phidippus whitmani
Whitman's jumping spider
No Colloquial Name
SCLEROSOMATIDAE
Leiobunum aldrichi
Leiobunum vittatum
SICARIIDAE
Loxosceles reclusa
Brown Recluse
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Rhomphaea fictilium
a cobweb spider
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Misumenoides formosipes
Whitebanded crab spider