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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-
20 species for
Washington County
Colloquial
family
sciName
comName
Orb Weavers
ARANEIDAE
Araneus marmoreus
Marbled orbweaver
Argiope aurantia
yellow garden spider
Neoscona arabesca
Arabesque orbweaver
Neoscona domiciliorum
a spotted orbweaver
Sheetweb and Dwarf Spiders
LINYPHIIDAE
Centromerus latidens
a sheetweb weaver
Wolf Spiders
LYCOSIDAE
Rabidosa punctulata
Dotted wolf spider
Tigrosa annexa
a wolf spider
No Colloquial Name
MYSMENIDAE
Microdipoena guttata
a minute clasping weaver
NEOBISIIDAE
Microbisium parvulum
NEPHILIDAE
Trichonephila clavipes
Golden Silk orbweaver
Lynx Spiders
OXYOPIDAE
Peucetia viridans
Green lynx spider
No Colloquial Name
PHALANGIIDAE
Odiellus pictus
PHOLCIDAE
Holocnemus pluchei
Marbled cellar spider
Nursery Web Spiders
PISAURIDAE
Dolomedes triton
Six-spotted fishing spider
Jumping Spiders
SALTICIDAE
Eris militaris
Bronze jumping spider
Pelegrina exigua
a jumping spider
Phidippus otiosus
Canopy jumping spider
Long-jawed Orb Weavers
TETRAGNATHIDAE
Tetragnatha laboriosa
silver longjawed orbweaver
Crab Spiders
THOMISIDAE
Xysticus ferox
a ground crab spider
No Colloquial Name
TRACHELIDAE
Trachelas tranquillus
a cuspuled spider