Checklist of Spiders and Other Arachnids for Hilton Pond Center

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ARACHNIDS
(Spiders, Ticks & Kin)

(Page updated 09/27/19)

All Text & Photos © Hilton Pond Center

White phase of Goldenrod Spider, Misumena vatia,
with Hoverfly on Elderberry flowers

The following 13 species of ARACHNIDS (Spiders, Ticks, and Kin) have been positively identified at Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History. (Photos and/or other information are available by clicking on underlined common names below.)

We are just beginning our formal survey of Arachnid species, so please check back later for the results of our work.

NOTE: If you have expertise in Spider or other Arachnid identification and would like to help survey the species at Hilton Pond Center, please contact us at RESEARCH

TICKS (Acari)

IXODIDAE (Hard-bodied Tick Family)

Bird Tick Ixodes brunneus
American Dog Tick Dermacentor variabilis

SPIDERS (Araneae)

THERIDIIDAE (Comb-footed Spider Family)

Common House Spider Achaearanea tepidariorum
Southern Black Widow Latrodectus mactans

ARANEIDAE (Orb-weaver Family)

Black and Yellow Garden Spider Argiope aurantia
Spined Micrathena Micrathena gracilis
Redfemured Spotted Orbweaver Neoscona domiciliorum
Arabesque Orbweaver Neoscona arabescam
Golden Silk Orbweaver Nephiles clavipes

OXYOPIDAE (Lynx Spider Family)

Green Lynx Spider Peucetia viridans

THOMISIDAE (Flower Spider Family)

Goldenrod Spider Misumena vatia (photo above)

PISAURIDAE (Nursery Web Spider Family)

Dark Fishing Spider Dolomedes tenebrosus

AGELENIDAE (FUNNEL WEAVER Spider Family)

Funnel-Web Grass Spider Agelenopsis naevia

HARVESTMEN (Opiliones)

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