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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-
25 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
Trichonephila clavipes
Golden Silk orbweaver
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
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Peucetia viridans
Green lynx spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Pisaurina undulata
a nursery web spider
Pisaurina brevipes
a nursery web spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Tetragnatha elongata
a longjawed orbweaver
Leucauge argyrobapta
Mabel's Orchard Orb Weaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Parasteatoda tepidariorum
common house spider
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Misumenoides formosipes
Whitebanded crab spider