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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
31 species for
Lenoir County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Ghost Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE
Anyphaena maculata
a ghost spider
Anyphaena pectorosa
a ghost spider
Hibana gracilis
garden ghost spider
Wulfila albens
a ghost spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus thaddeus
Lattice orbweaver
Eustala anastera
Humpbacked orbweaver
Mangora placida
tuftlegged orbweaver
Armoured harvestmen
COSMETIDAE
Libitioides sayi
Say's Armored Harvestman
Mesh Web Weavers
DICTYNIDAE
Emblyna sublata
a mesh web spider
Pirate spiders
MIMETIDAE
Mimetus puritanus
a pirate spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Oxyopes salticus
striped lynx spider
Oxyopes scalaris
Western lynx spider
Peucetia viridans
green lynx spider
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus praelustris
Canadian crab spider
Philodromus floridensis
a running crab spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Dolomedes triton
Six-spotted fishing spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Hentzia mitrata
a jumping spider
Hentzia palmarum
Longjawed jumping spider
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Phidippus audax
Bold jumper, Daring jumping spider
Platycryptus undatus
a jumping spider
Colonus sylvanus
a jumping spider
Zygoballus sexpunctatus
a jumping spider
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Anelosimus studiosus
a cobweb spider
Theridion differens
a cobweb spider
Theridion murarium
a cobweb spider
Rhomphaea projiciens
a cobweb spider
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Mecaphesa asperata
Northern crab spider
Misumenoides formosipes
whitebanded crab spider
No Colloquial Name
TRACHELIDAE
Trachelas similis
a cuspuled spider
Cribellate Orb Weavers
ULOBORIDAE
Uloborus glomosus
featherlegged orbweaver