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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-
23 species for
Harnett County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Acacesia hamata
difoliate orbweaver
Araneus bicentenarius
lichenmarked orbweaver
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Cyclosa conica
a trashline spider
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Spinybacked orbweaver
Mangora gibberosa
Lined orbweaver
Micrathena sagittata
Arrowshaped Micrathena
Armoured harvestmen
COSMETIDAE
Vonones sayi
Mesh Web Weavers
DICTYNIDAE
Lathys maculina
a mesh web spider
No Colloquial Name
HALONOPROCTIDAE
Ummidia unidentified species
a corklid trapdoor spider
Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders
LINYPHIIDAE
Scylaceus pallidus
a dwarf spider
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Geolycosa pikei
a burrowing wolf spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Peucetia viridans
Green lynx spider
Armoured harvestmen
PHALANGODIDAE
Erebomaster acanthinus
No Colloquial Name
PHRUROLITHIDAE
Scotinella redempta
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Habronattus notialis
a jumping spider
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Phidippus insignarius
a jumping spider
Phidippus otiosus
Canopy jumping spider
Phidippus princeps
a jumping spider
Phidippus whitmani
Whitman's jumping spider
Zygoballus sexpunctatus
a jumping spider
Phidippus pius