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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
ARGYRONETIDAE-
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-
LATHYIDAE-
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
27 species for
Pamlico County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Ghost Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE
Hibana gracilis
garden ghost spider
Wulfila albens
a ghost spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Eustala anastera
Humpbacked orbweaver
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Spinybacked orbweaver
Larinioides cornutus
Furrow orbweaver
Metepeira labyrinthea
Labyrinth orbweaver
Neoscona crucifera
Spotted Orbweaver
No Colloquial Name
DOLOMEDIDAE
Dolomedes triton
Six-spotted fishing spider
Ground Spiders
GNAPHOSIDAE
Nodocion floridanus
a ground spider
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Rabidosa punctulata
Dotted wolf spider
Pirate spiders
MIMETIDAE
Mimetus puritanus
a pirate spider
No Colloquial Name
NEPHILIDAE
Trichonephila clavipes
Golden Silk orbweaver
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus keyserlingi
a running crab spider
Philodromus unidentified species
running crab spiders
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Hentzia mitrata
a jumping spider
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Platycryptus undatus
a jumping spider
Synemosyna formica
an antmimic jumping spider
Metacyrba floridana
a jumping spider
Pelegrina tillandsiae
a jumping spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Leucauge argyrobapta
a longjawed orbweaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Dipoena nigra
a cobweb spider
Parasteatoda tepidariorum
common house spider
Theridion differens
a cobweb spider
Yunohamella lyrica
a cobweb spider
No Colloquial Name
TRACHELIDAE
Trachelas similis
a cuspuled spider
Cribellate Orb Weavers
ULOBORIDAE
Uloborus glomosus
featherlegged orbweaver