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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
Polk County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Funnel Weavers
AGELENIDAE
Wadotes bimucronatus
Ghost Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE
Anyphaena pectorosa
a ghost spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Eustala anastera
Humpbacked orbweaver
Micrathena gracilis
spined Micrathena
Micrathena mitrata
white micrathena
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
No Colloquial Name
CYBAEIDAE
Calymmaria persica
a basket-web weaver
Ground Spiders
GNAPHOSIDAE
Herpyllus ecclesiasticus
Parson spider
No Colloquial Name
HYPOCHILIDAE
Hypochilus coylei
A Lampshade Spider
Hypochilus pococki
A Lampshade Spider
Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders
LINYPHIIDAE
Ceraticelus creolus
a dwarf spider
Drapetisca alteranda
a sheetweb weaver
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Pardosa lapidicina
a thinlegged wolf spider
Scaffold Web Spiders
NESTICIDAE
Nesticus brimleyi
a cave cobweb spider
Armoured harvestmen
PHALANGODIDAE
Bishopella laciniosa
No Colloquial Name
PHOLCIDAE
Pholcus phalangioides
Longbodied cellar spider
Spermophora senoculata
Short-bodied cellar spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Dolomedes albineus
whitebanded fishing spider
Dolomedes tenebrosus
Dark fishing spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Naphrys pulex
a jumping spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Leucauge venusta
orchard orbweaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Euryopis funebris
a cobweb spider
Parasteatoda tepidariorum
common house spider
Steatoda borealis
northern cobweb weaver
Steatoda grossa
false black widow
Pholcomma barnesi
a cobweb spider
No Colloquial Name
VAEJOVIDAE
Vaejovis carolinianus
Southern Unstriped Scorpion