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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
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
41 species for
Warren County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Ghost Spiders
ANYPHAENIDAE
Lupettiana mordax
a ghost spider
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Acanthepeira stellata
Star-bellied orb weaver
Eustala anastera
Humpbacked orbweaver
Eustala cepina
an orbweaver
Larinioides cornutus
Furrow orbweaver
Mangora gibberosa
Lined orbweaver
Micrathena mitrata
white micrathena
Micrathena sagittata
Arrowshaped Micrathena
Neoscona crucifera
Spotted Orbweaver
Neoscona domiciliorum
a spotted orbweaver
Metazygia wittfeldae
an orbweaver
Purseweb Spiders
ATYPIDAE
Sphodros atlanticus
a purseweb spider
No Colloquial Name
CHEIRACANTHIIDAE
Strotarchus piscatorius
a longlegged sac spider
Armoured harvestmen
COSMETIDAE
Libitioides sayi
Say's Armored Harvestman
Ground Spiders
GNAPHOSIDAE
Cesonia bilineata
a stealthy ground spider
Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders
LINYPHIIDAE
Hypselistes florens
splendid dwarf spider
Pirate spiders
MIMETIDAE
Mimetus puritanus
a pirate spider
Running Crab Spiders
PHILODROMIDAE
Philodromus marxi
Metallic crab spider
Philodromus rufus
a running crab spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Dolomedes tenebrosus
Dark fishing spider
Pisaurina mira
nursery web spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Hentzia mitrata
a jumping spider
Lyssomanes viridis
Magnolia green jumper
Paraphidippus aurantius
Emerald jumping spider
Pelegrina galathea
peppered jumper
Pelegrina proterva
a jumping spider
Phidippus cardinalis
Cardinal jumper
Phidippus insignarius
a jumping spider
Phidippus putnami
a jumping spider
Phidippus whitmani
Whitman's jumping spider
Platycryptus undatus
a jumping spider
Salticus scenicus
Zebra jumper
Attinella concolor
a jumping spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Leucauge venusta
orchard orbweaver
Tetragnatha elongata
a longjawed orbweaver
Tetragnatha unidentified species
Cobweb Spiders
THERIDIIDAE
Argyrodes elevatus
a dewdrop spider
Spintharus flavidus
a cobweb spider
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Misumessus oblongus
a crab spider
Synema parvulum
a crab spider
Mecaphesa sp. 1
a crab spider