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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
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Neobisiidae Members:
Lissocreagris subatlantica
Microbisium brunneum
Microbisium parvulum
Microcreagris atlantica
Novobisium carolinense
Tuberocreagris lata
NC
Records
Novobisium carolinense
- No Common Name
Taxonomy
Order:
PSEUDOSCORPIONES
Family:
Neobisiidae
Comments:
Described by Banks (1895) as Obisium carolinensis. The genus also includes N. ingratum, recorded from Alabama, and N. tenue, recorded from Tennessee and previously considered a subspecies of N. carolinense.
Species Comment:
Type locality Haywood Co, NC
Identification
Online Description/Photos:
BugGuide
Google
,
iNaturalist
,
Wikipedia
,
GBIF
Technical Description:
Muchmore, W.B., 1967. Novobisium (Arachnida, Chelonethida, Neobisiidae, Neobisiinae), a new genus of pseudoscorpions based on Obisium carolinensis Banks. Entomological News, 78, p.211-215.
Comments:
ID the family by each leg with six segments, dentate inner margin on moveable finger of chelicera, and pleural membranes granular. ID the genus by spinneret on moveable finger of chelicera is a rounded knob, four eyes, palpal chela with 4 trichobothria on moveable finger and 8 on fixed finger (Microbisium has 3 and 7, respectively)
Total Length:
Body length 2.5 - 4 mm
Distribution in North Carolina
Comments:
Appalachian mountain region from Pennsylvania to Alabama.
County Map:
Clicking on a county returns the records for the species in that county.
Adult phenology:
High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
Piedmont (Pd)
Coastal Plain (CP)
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Habitats and Life History
Habitats:
Moist leaf litter
Observation Methods:
Abundance/Frequency:
Fairly common
Status in North Carolina
Natural Heritage Program Status:
Natural Heritage Program Ranks:
State Protection:
Comments:
Photo Gallery for
Novobisium carolinense
- No common name
Photos: 9
Recorded by: Brian Bockhahn on 2024-07-17
Ashe Co.
Comment:
Recorded by: Brian Bockhahn on 2023-08-17
Yancey Co.
Comment:
Recorded by: Brian Bockhahn on 2023-08-17
Yancey Co.
Comment:
Recorded by: Carol Tingley on 2023-06-17
Avery Co.
Comment:
Recorded by: Carol Tingley on 2022-04-08
Alexander Co.
Comment:
Recorded by: Carol Tingley on 2021-03-28
Chatham Co.
Comment:
Recorded by: Brian Bockhahn on 2020-09-15
Wilkes Co.
Comment:
Recorded by: Carol Tingley on 2020-08-04
Ashe Co.
Comment:
Recorded by: Carol Tingley on 2020-08-04
Ashe Co.
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