Araneomorphae

Agelenopsis sp. female

Agelenopsis sp. male, 17 mm. (about 3/4 inch)

Same, showing elaborate pedipalps

Same, from the side.

Agelena labyrinthica

Agelena limbata

Agelena opulenta, Chiba, Japan

Tegenaria atrica

Tegenaria atrica (Große Winkelspinne)

Tegenaria domestica, female

Tegenaria domestica, female

Tegenaria domestica, female

Tegenaria agrestis (male)

Tegenaria agrestis (female)

Tegenaria gigantea

Tegenaria gigantea

Tegenaria gigantea

Tegenaria gigantea

Pimus sp.

Sac spider (Aysha velox)

Male Aysha velox

Bird dropping spider (Celaenia excavata)

several egg cases (Celaenia excavata)

several egg cases (Celaenia excavata)

several egg cases (Celaenia excavata)

From India genus: Gasteracantha species: unidentified

Araneus marmoreus

Araneus marmoreus

Araneus marmoreus

Araneus diadematus

Araneus diadematus vs. Vespula

Araneus diadematus vs. Vespula

Araneus diadematus

Araneus diadematus

Araneus diadematus

Araneus alsine

Araneus diadematus

Araneus diadematus?

from below

female

spiderling

web

male

Araniella displicata, adult female

untitled

untitled

Argiope

A. argentata, or A. blanda

From India genus: Argiope, species: unidentified

Argiope?

Argiope?

Argiope?

ventral aspect, N. Carolina, USA

N. Carolina, USA

N. Carolina, USA

N. Carolina, USA

from Georgia, USA; drinking its prey

probably from Texas

Argiope lobata, photographed near Barkai, Israel

A. nordmanni

Argiope pulchella, from Bangalore, India

female dorsal

female ventral

Araniella sp. (?)

Araniella sp.

Araniella opisthographa

Map of the distribution of Araniella cucurbitina

Araniella cucurbitina

Araniella cucurbitina

Araniella cucurbitina

Araniella cucurbitina

Araniella cucurbitina

Araniella cucurbitina

Araniella cucurbitina

Araniella cucurbitina (female)

Araniella cucurbitina (spiderling)

Web of Araniella cucurbitina

Araniella cucurbitina

Araniella cucurbitina

Clubiona trivialis

Clubiona trivialis

Clubiona trivialis

Distribution of the Clubionidae

Distribution of Clubiona trivialis

Distribution of the Ctenidae

Pattern of the eyes of Acanthoctenus remotus

Distribution of the Deinopidae

Distribution of Deinopsis subrufa

Distribution of the Desidae

Distribution of Phryganoporus candidus

Badumna insignis (Black window spider)

Nigma walckenaeri

Filistatid web

Callobius sp.

Callobius sp. on a redwood tree

Homalonychus species (USA)

Homalonychus with eggsac (USA)

Hypochilus web

post-copulatory mate guarding

Hypochilus petrunkevitchi in northern California

Hypochilus thorelli

long-jawed Orb weaver

Tetragnatha montana

Tetragnatha sp.

long-jawed orb weaver

Tetragnatha viridourfa

Tetragnatha sp.

Tetragnatha sp.

Tetragnatha sp.

Pair of Tetragnatha extensa

Pair of Tetragnatha extensa

Tetragnatha extensa (female)

Tetragnatha extensa web

Tetragnatha montana

Tetragnatha striata

Tetragnatha striata web

Leucauge venusta

Leucauge tessellata (?) from Wayanad, southern India.Leucauge tessellata (?)

Leucauge venusta

Nephila sp. Germany?

Nephila sp.

Nephila sp.

Nephila species

Golden Orb Weavers (Nephila sp.) in Parque Nacional Corcovado, a female in the foreground and a male in the background.

Nephila clavipes weaving

Nephila clavipes (?) Chiapas, Mexico

Nephila inaurata

Nephila inaurata

Nephila inaurata nest

Nephila nigra, probably the same species

Nephila inaurata (1)

Nephila inaurata (2)

Nephila inaurata (3)

difference of size between sexes

Seidenspinne aus Gambia (Abuko Nature Reserve)

Nephila sp. from Appalachia (USA)

Nephila clavata, Place:Osaka-fu Japan

Nephila clavata, Place:Osaka-fu Japan

Nephila in Japan

Nephila clavata, L. KOCH. a specie of spider in Japan

from Brisbane (Bardon), Australia

A spider from Taichung, Taiwan

Distribution of Nephila edulis

Nephila sp. Seychelles

Nephila, ventral, female

Metellina mengei

Metellina species

Metellina species

female

male

Metellina segmentata, from the forest of Ratingen, Germany

Linyphiidae

Linyphiidae

Frontinella pyramitela

Frontinella sp.

close-up

Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver)

Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver)

Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver)

Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver) (Eyes)

Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver)

Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver) (Eyes)

Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver) (Diagram of eyes.)

Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver) (Chelicerae)

Loxoceles reclusa, Brown recluse

Loxosceles reclusa (Center for Disease Control photo)

Loxoceles reclusa, Brown recluse

Distribution of Loxosceles reclusa

Loxosceles laeta (South America)

Map of the distribution of the Lycosidae

Map of the distribution of Arctosa cinerea

World distribution of Adelocosa anops

Diagram showing the cephalothorax of a typical wolf spider

Image of the main body parts of a (wolf) spider. 1. Egg sac, 2. Chelicerae, 3. Pedipalps

Diagram of typical eye pattern of the Lycosidae

Germany. Pardosa (?) species?

Germany. Pardosa (?) species?

Northern Europe? Species ?

Mother wolf spider--her back is carpeted with hundreds of babies.

Lycosid with door on burrow.

Another lycosid with door on burrow.

Arctosa cinerea

European (Lithuania?) species unidentified.

Arctosa sp. (resembles A. leopardus)

Same spider, different view.

From North Carolina, U.S.A.

Length is approx. 15 mm.

or about .75 inches

These pictures are of one female.

Wolf spider

Wolf Spider defending its egg sac

Wolf spider in a tunnel

Female with its egg sac

Hogna species (probably helluo) showing clearly the characteristic hogna eye pattern. The bottom row of four eyes is slightly wider than the middle row of eyes.

Hogna helluo

Hogna helluo

Hogna helluo, male

Hogna frondicola

Lycosa tarantula, the original "tarantula." Note the babies riding on her abdomen.

female Pardosa agricola

female Pardosa agricola with egg sac, on water

male Pardosa agricola

female Pardosa amentata with egg sac

female Pardosa amentata with spiderlings

male and female Pardosa amentata

female Pardosa hortensis

male Pardosa hortensis

Pardosa hortensis with spiderlings

Pardosa lugubris

Pardosa lugubris

Pardosa lugubris

Pardosa lugubris

Pardosa lugubris couple

female Pardosa lugubris

male Pardosa lugubris

Pardosa lugubris

Pardosa lugubris with egg case

female Pardosa pullata

Pardosa pullata with egg sac

Pardosa pullata with spiderlings

female Pardosa sphagnicola with egg sac

male Pardosa sphagnicola

Pardosa sphagnicola with spiderlings

Unidentified Pardosa species

Peucetia viridans

Oxyopes sertatus

Oxyopes sertatus

Rabidosa, punctulata (?). Note two black front legs. Pedipalps are lighter than shown in this photograph.

Dorsal view of color pattern of Sosippus minus (female)

Dorsal view of color pattern of Sosippus minus (gravid female)

Dorsal view of color pattern Sosippus texanus

Dorsal view of color pattern of Sosippus plutonus

Philodromus sp.

Dolomedes fimbriatus

Dolomedes fimbriatus (?)

Dolomedes scriptus

Pisaura mirabilis

Pisaura mirabilis

Pisaura mirabilis

Pisaura mirabilis dans une fleur de Gazania

Pisaura sp. apparently from somewhere in Spain.

Pisaura mirabilis

Spermophora senoculata, male

Spermophora senoculata, male

Spermophora senoculata, male

Spermophora senoculata, male

Spermophora senoculata, male

Spermophora senoculata, male

Phlocus sp.

Phlocus sp. with eggs

daddy long-legs spider

NRW/Germany

NRW/Germany

NRW/Germany

Habronattus tarsalis

adult male

adult male

adult male front

adult male top

retreat of adult

Male

juvenile

adult female, front visible

adult female from behind

adult female from the side

Heliophanus cupreus

Heliophanus cupreus

Ant mimic spider (genus Myrmarachne) from India

from Japan, Myrmarachne japonica (?)

Salticus scenicus 1

Salticus scenicus 2

Salticus scenicus 3

Salticus scenicus f1

Salticus scenicus f2

Salticus scenicus f3

Salticus scenicus f4

Salticus scenicus f5

Salticus scenicus f6

Salticus scenicus f7

preying on Sitticus pubescens

Sitticus pubescens

Sitticus pubescens

Sitticus pubescens

Platycryptus undatus exploring a human thumb

Platycryptus undatus 1

Platycryptus undatus 2

Platycryptus undatus 3

Platycryptus undatus female

Marpissa muscosa

Marpissa muscosa

Marpissa muscosa

Phidippus audax (1) 10 mm. Female. She keeps a watchful eye on the photographer.

Phidippus audax (2) Note "lifeline" that protects her from falling.

Phidippus audax (3) These spiders are capable of giving defensive bites.

Female Phidippus johnsani (?) 14 mm.

Large, slow moving, and attractive, some are bright red and may tempt children.

These spiders will give defensive bites.

If she is not johnsoni she is ardens. For experts, here is her epigynum.

Close-up view.

Phidippus octopunctatis, perhaps the largest U.S. jumping spider.

This female is 16 mm. long. She is very slow moving.

Quite calm and unobtrusive, these spiders may give defensive bites.

Phidippus whitmani(?) Calm but active, she seems not to fear the photographer.

Phidippus workmani(?) 10 mm. She is shy and wary.

Phidippus workmani(?) facing the camera

Phidippus workmani(?) orienting cephalothorax upward toward camera

Phidippus audax?

mystaceus

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Paraphidippus aurantius

Paraphidippus aurantius

Siler_cupreus

Sandalodes

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cre cra

Scytodes thoracica

Selenops australiensis

Six-eyed sand spider (Sicarius sp.)

Male depositing sperm onto sperm web

Male taking sperm up into his pedipalps

Huntsman spider (Heteropoda venatoria) eating a cricket

The same spider is carrying an empty egg case.

Ventral aspect, showing epigynum and spinnerets.

Heteropoda maxima

Micrommata virescens

Male Nesticus sp.

Female Nesticus sp.

Pimus sp.

Cryphoeca silvicola, female

Huntsman spider on the underside of a log

The multiple eyes and hairy body of a Huntsman Spider

Olios (?) sp. from Australia (?)

Olios (?) sp.

Olios (?) sp. from Australia. (Misidentified by the photographer as a wolf spider.)

Tetragnatha montana

Metellina mengei

Crab spider (genus unspecified) with prey

Misumena vatia, head close up

Misumena vatia, hiding in the shadow

Misumena vatia, hiding in the shadow, close up

Misumena vatia, 5x Magnification

Misumena vatia, a kind of crab spider

Misumena vatia (male)

Diaea dorsata

Runcinia acuminata on ribwort plant

Thomisus labefactus, Kobe, Japan

Xysticus

Achaearanea tepidariorum

Enoplognatha ovata (?) female, body length 2mm

Theridion attritum female, dorsal abdomen

Theridion attritum female, ventral abdomen

Theridion tepidariorum female with egg sac

Latrodectus hesperus (?) California, USA

Latrodectus hasselti, Australia

Latrodectus hasselti, Australia

Latrodectus hesperus with egg sac (Photo from University of California at Riverside)

Latrodectus hesperus immature female

Latrodectus hesperus

Latrodectus lilianae

Latrodectus lilianae

Latrodectus

Latrodectus mactans

L. Mactans, Dorsal view 1 Note that the red dot is formed by this spider's spinerettes. (North Carolina, USA)

L. Mactans, Dorsal view 2 The "trademark" hourglass figure is not visible. (NC, USA)

L. Mactans, Dorsal view 3 This spider has an egg sac about the size of her abdomen. It it not visible in this picture.(NC, USA)

L. Mactans, In this picture, the black widow's characteristic red hourglass is clearly visible.(NC, USA)

L. Mactans, This spider has caught an insect in her web, has wrapped it in silk, and will soon eat it.(NC, USA)

Latrodectus sp., North Carolina, USA.

Latrodectus mactans

Latrodectus mactans

Latrodectus mactans

Latrodectus mactans

Latrodectus mactans

Latrodectus mactans

Latrodectus tredecimguttatus - young female Europe, Croatia

Latrodectus tredecimguttatus - male Europe, Croatia

Latrodectus curacaviensis female, dorsal

Latrodectus curacaviensis female, ventral

Latrodectus bishopi mating position,lateral

Latrodectus bishopi mating position, ventral

Distribution of Latrodectus indistinctus

Distribution of Latrodectus karooensis

Latrodectus mactans spiderling development (Cuzco)

Latrodectus mactans spiderling development (Lima)

Abdominal markings of Latrodectus sp. from northern Argentina

Steatoda bipunctata

Steatoda grossa (male)

Steatoda iheringi female, dorsal depiction of the abdomen

Phoneutria nigriventer. WARNING: This and other species of the genus Phoneutria are extremely venomous and should generally *not* be handled.

Garden spider
Dallas, Texas

Eriovixia sakiedaorum female

Eriovixia sakiedaorum female

Achaearanea japonica female

Achaearanea japonica male

Achaearanea japonica web

Achaearanea projectivulva female

Achaearanea projectivulva female

Achaearanea projectivulva nest

Achaearanea ryukyu female

Achaearanea ryukyu female

Achaearanea ryukyu male

Achaearanea tepidariorum female

Achaearanea tepidariorum male

Acusilas coccineus female

Acusilas coccineus male

Acusilas coccineus web