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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
DOLOMEDIDAE-
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
21 species for
Granville County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Funnel Weavers
AGELENIDAE
Agelenopsis pennsylvanica
a grass spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus marmoreus
Marbled orbweaver
Eustala anastera
Humpbacked orbweaver
Eustala cepina
an orbweaver
Larinia directa
an orbweaver
Mangora gibberosa
Lined orbweaver
Micrathena sagittata
Arrowshaped Micrathena
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
Neoscona crucifera
Spotted Orbweaver
Verrucosa arenata
an orb weaver
Armoured harvestmen
COSMETIDAE
Libitioides sayi
Say's Armored Harvestman
Ground Spiders
GNAPHOSIDAE
Gnaphosa fontinalis
a ground spider
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Hogna lenta
Field wolf spider
No Colloquial Name
PHRUROLITHIDAE
Phrurotimpus borealis
a phrurolithid
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Colonus sylvanus
a jumping spider
No Colloquial Name
SCLEROSOMATIDAE
Leiobunum nigropalpi
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Tetragnatha caudata
a longjawed orbweaver
Tetragnatha elongata
a longjawed orbweaver
Tetragnatha straminea
a longjawed orbweaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Thymoites expulsus
a cobweb spider
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Misumenoides formosipes
whitebanded crab spider