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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-
40 species for
Stanly County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Funnel Weavers
AGELENIDAE
Agelenopsis pennsylvanica
a grass spider
Ghost Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE
Wulfila saltabundus
a ghost spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Acacesia hamata
difoliate orbweaver
Araneus cingulatus
an orbweaver
Araneus guttulatus
an orbweaver
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Spinybacked orbweaver
Larinioides cornutus
Furrow orbweaver
Mangora gibberosa
Lined orbweaver
Mangora maculata
Greenlegged orbweaver
Metepeira labyrinthea
Labyrinth orbweaver
Micrathena mitrata
white micrathena
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
Neoscona crucifera
a spotted orbweaver
Neoscona domiciliorum
a spotted orbweaver
Trichonephila clavipes
Golden Silk orbweaver
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Gladicosa pulchra
a wolf spider
Rabidosa punctulata
Dotted wolf spider
Pirate spiders
MIMETIDAE
Mimetus notius
a pirate spider
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus placidus
a running crab spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Dolomedes tenebrosus
Dark fishing spider
Pisaurina mira
nursery web spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Habronattus coecatus
a jumping spider
Hentzia mitrata
a jumping spider
Paraphidippus aurantius
Emerald jumping spider
Peckhamia picata
an antmimic jumping spider
Phidippus cardinalis
Cardinal jumper
Phidippus princeps
a jumping spider
Phidippus putnami
a jumping spider
Zygoballus sexpunctatus
a jumping spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Tetragnatha straminea
a longjawed orbweaver
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Argyrodes elevatus
a dewdrop spider
Euryopis funebris
a cobweb spider
Steatoda triangulosa
a cobweb spider
Theridion differens
a cobweb spider
Wamba crispulus
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Mecaphesa asperata
Northern crab spider
Misumessus oblongus
a crab spider
Synema parvulum
a crab spider
Tmarus angulatus
a crab spider