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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
Randolph County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Ghost Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE
Anyphaena pectorosa
a ghost spider
Wulfila albens
a ghost spider
Wulfila saltabundus
a ghost spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Acacesia hamata
difoliate orbweaver
Araneus marmoreus
Marbled orbweaver
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Larinioides cornutus
Furrow orbweaver
Mangora spiculata
an orbweaver
Mastophora stowei
Micrathena sagittata
Arrowshaped Micrathena
Antmimics and Ground Sac Spiders
CORINNIDAE
Castianeira crocata
an antlike runner
No Colloquial Name
DOLOMEDIDAE
Dolomedes tenebrosus
Dark fishing spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Oxyopes cougar
a lynx spider
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus marxi
Metallic crab spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Pisaurina mira
nursery web spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Phidippus princeps
a jumping spider
Sarinda hentzi
an antmimic jumping spider
Synemosyna formica
an antmimic jumping spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Tetragnatha caudata
a longjawed orbweaver
Tetragnatha elongata
a longjawed orbweaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Latrodectus mactans
Southern black widow
Latrodectus variolus
Northern black widow
Rhomphaea fictilium
a cobweb spider
Steatoda unidentified species
a false widow
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Mecaphesa asperata
Northern crab spider
Cribellate Orb Weavers
ULOBORIDAE
Hyptiotes cavatus
Triangle web spider