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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
24 species for
Montgomery County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus tuscarora
Gea heptagon
an orbweaver
Mangora gibberosa
Lined orbweaver
Mangora placida
tuftlegged orbweaver
Metepeira labyrinthea
Labyrinth orbweaver
Purseweb Spiders
ATYPIDAE
Sphodros niger
a purseweb spider
No Colloquial Name
DOLOMEDIDAE
Dolomedes scriptus
Striped fishing spider
HALONOPROCTIDAE
Ummidia unidentified species
a corklid trapdoor spider
Ummidia audouini
a cork-lid trapdoor spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Oxyopes salticus
striped lynx spider
Peucetia viridans
green lynx spider
Oxyopes cougar
a lynx spider
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus marxi
Metallic crab spider
No Colloquial Name
PHRUROLITHIDAE
Scotinella banksi
No common name
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Hentzia palmarum
Longjawed jumping spider
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Phidippus audax
Bold jumper, Daring jumping spider
Colonus sylvanus
a jumping spider
Zygoballus rufipes
hammerjawed jumper
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Leucauge venusta
orchard orbweaver
Tetragnatha elongata
a longjawed orbweaver
Tetragnatha versicolor
a longjawed orbweaver
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Misumenoides formosipes
whitebanded crab spider
Misumessus oblongus
a crab spider