Arachnids of North Carolina
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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-
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-
27 species for
Pender County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Ghost Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE
Anyphaena pectorosa
a ghost spider
Hibana velox
a ghost spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Acacesia hamata
difoliate orbweaver
Acanthepeira stellata
Star-bellied orb weaver
Araneus pegnia
Butterfly orbweaver
Larinia directa
an orbweaver
Mangora placida
tuftlegged orbweaver
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
Armoured harvestmen
COSMETIDAE
Vonones ornatus
Ornate Armored Harvestman
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Allocosa funerea
a wolf spider
Hogna lenta
Field wolf spider
Rabidosa punctulata
Dotted wolf spider
Schizocosa saltatrix
a wolf spider
Tigrosa annexa
a wolf spider
Tigrosa georgicola
a wolf spider
Geolycosa pikei
a burrowing wolf spider
Varacosa avara
a wolf spider
Pirata iviei
a pirate wolf spider
No Colloquial Name
NEPHILIDAE
Trichonephila clavipes
Golden Silk orbweaver
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Peucetia viridans
Green lynx spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Pisaurina undulata
a nursery web spider
Pisaurina brevipes
a nursery web spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Phidippus princeps
a jumping spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Tetragnatha elongata
a longjawed orbweaver
Leucauge argyrobapta
a longjawed orbweaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Parasteatoda tepidariorum
common house spider
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Misumenoides formosipes
whitebanded crab spider