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MatBio: ARACHNIDS - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Grass Spiders 1
Agelenopsis
Yellow Garden Spider
Argiope aurantia
Dark Fishing Spider 2
Dolomedes tenebrosus
Six-spotted Fishing Spider 3
Dolomedes triton
Spinybacked Orbweaver 4
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Brown Widow 5
Latrodectus geometricus
southern black widow 6
Latrodectus mactans
Leucauge argyra. 7
Leucauge argyra
Orchard Orbweaver 8
Leucauge venusta
Lycosa carolinensis
Golden Silk Orb-weaver 9
Nephila clavipes
Green Lynx Spider 10
Peucetia viridans
Bold Jumper 11
Phidippus audax
Skull Spider 12
Pholcus phalangioides
False Black Widow
Steatoda grossa
Barn Funnel Weaver 13
Tegenaria domestica
Field Wolf spider 14
Rabidosa punctulata
Shoreline Wolf Spider
Arctosa littoralis
Nursery Web Spider 15
Pisaurina mira
Okefenokee Fishing Spider 16
Dolomedes okefinokensis
Whitebanded Fishing Spider
Dolomedes albineus
Regal Jumping Spider 17
Phidippus regius
Canopy Jumping Spider 18
Phidippus otiosus
pantropical jumper 19
Plexippus paykulli
Red Velvet Jumper 20
Phidippus apacheanus
Gray Wall Jumper 21
Menemerus bivittatus
Twinflagged Jumping Spider 22
Anasaitis canosa
Pike's slender jumper 23
Marpissa pikei
Bronze Lake Jumper 24
Eris flava
Dimorphic Jumping Spider 22
Maevia inclemens
Magnolia Green Jumper 25
Lyssomanes viridis
Sylvana Jumping Spider
Thiodina sylvana
Antmimic Jumping Spider 22
Sarinda hentzi
Hentz Jumper
Hentzia mitrata
Hentz Jumper
Hentzia palmarum
Sac Spider 26
Cheiracanthium inclusum
Flower Crab Spider
Misumenops celer
Whitebanded Crab Spider 27
Misumenoides formosipes
Field Wolf Spider
Hogna lenta
striped lynx spider 28
Oxyopes salticus
Bark Lynx Spider 25
Hamataliwa grisea
yellow ghost spider 29
Hibana velox
Huntsman Spider 30
Heteropoda venatoria
Southern House Spider 31
Kukulcania hibernalis
Spitting Spider 32
Scytodes thoracica
Brown Recluse 33
Loxosceles reclusa
Giant Lichen Orbweaver 34
Araneus bicentenarius
humpbacked orbweaver 35
Eustala anastera
Spotted Orbweaver 36
Neoscona domiciliorum
Arrowhead Orbweaver 37
Verrucosa arenata
Starbellied Orbweaver 28
Acanthepeira stellata
Tropical Orbweaver Spider 17
Eriophora ravilla
basilica spider 38
Mecynogea lemniscata
Arrow-shaped Micrathena 39
Micrathena sagittata
Green Longjawed Orbweaver 40
Tetragnatha viridis
Pale Longjawed Orbweaver 41
Tetragnatha pallescens
Silvery Spider 42
Argyrodes nephilae
Bowl and Doily Spider 43
Frontinella pyramitela
Black-tailed Red Sheetweaver 38
Florinda coccinea
Filmy Dome Spider 44
Neriene radiata
Anelosimus studiosus 45
Featherlegged Orbweaver 46
Uloborus glomosus
Banded Garden Spider 47
Argiope trifasciata
Spiny Crowned Orbweaver 48
Micrathena gracilis
Bolas Spiders 49
Mastophora
Tiger Wolf Spider 50
Hogna aspersa

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

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