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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
35 species for
Pitt County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Ghost Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE
Anyphaena maculata
a ghost spider
Anyphaena pectorosa
a ghost spider
Hibana gracilis
garden ghost spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus marmoreus
Marbled orbweaver
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Eustala cepina
an orbweaver
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Spinybacked orbweaver
Larinia directa
an orbweaver
Mangora placida
tuftlegged orbweaver
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
Neoscona crucifera
Spotted Orbweaver
No Colloquial Name
DOLOMEDIDAE
Dolomedes tenebrosus
Dark fishing spider
Dolomedes unidentified species
Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders
LINYPHIIDAE
Frontinella pyramitela
bowl and doily weaver
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Pardosa milvina
a thinlegged wolf spider spider
Rabidosa rabida
Rabid Wolf Spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Oxyopes aglossus
a lynx spider
Oxyopes salticus
striped lynx spider
Peucetia viridans
green lynx spider
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Tibellus duttoni
a slender crab spider
Philodromus floridensis
a running crab spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Pisaurina mira
nursery web spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Colonus sylvanus
a jumping spider
Zygoballus rufipes
hammerjawed jumper
No Colloquial Name
SCLEROSOMATIDAE
Hadrobunus maculosus
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Leucauge venusta
orchard orbweaver
Tetragnatha viridis
Green longjawed orbweaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Anelosimus studiosus
a cobweb spider
Latrodectus mactans
Southern black widow
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Mecaphesa celer
Swift crab spider
Misumenoides formosipes
whitebanded crab spider
Synema parvulum
a crab spider
Xysticus funestus
a ground crab spider
Cribellate Orb Weavers
ULOBORIDAE
Uloborus glomosus
featherlegged orbweaver