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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-
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
a 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
Vonones 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