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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
26 species for
Richmond County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Funnel Weavers
AGELENIDAE
Agelenopsis naevia
a grass spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Acanthepeira stellata
Star-bellied orb weaver
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Spinybacked orbweaver
Mangora gibberosa
Lined orbweaver
Mangora placida
tuftlegged orbweaver
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Hogna lenta
Field wolf spider
Geolycosa pikei
a burrowing wolf spider
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Oxyopes salticus
striped lynx spider
Peucetia viridans
green lynx spider
Oxyopes cougar
a lynx spider
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus keyserlingi
a running crab spider
Philodromus praelustris
Canadian crab spider
Tibellus oblongus
a slender crab spider
No Colloquial Name
PHOLCIDAE
Crossopriza lyoni
a cellar spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Admestina tibialis
Hentzia palmarum
Longjawed jumping spider
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Maevia inclemens
Dimorphic jumping spider
Phidippus clarus
Red-backed jumping spider
Colonus puerperus
a jumping spider
Metacyrba floridana
a jumping spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Leucauge venusta
orchard orbweaver
Tetragnatha elongata
a longjawed orbweaver
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Misumena vatia
goldenrod crab spider
Misumenoides formosipes
whitebanded crab spider