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Ticks and Mites
Order: Acarina

Species undetermined
Whip Scorpions
Order: Amblipygi

Phrynus goesii with eggs (left) and carrying her
young on her back (middle, right)
Spiders
Order: Araneae
Family: Araneidae
Argiope argentata (juvenile, left)

Cyclosa sp.

Cyclosa walkenari

Cyclosa caroli, female

Cyrthophora citricola, female

Eustala sp.

The Spinybacked Orb Weaver (Gasteracantha cancriformis)
comes in a variety of shapes and colours

Mecynogea lemniscata

Possibly Metazygia sp., subadult male

Possibly Metepeira compsa




All of the above: species undetermined
Family: Barychelidae

Species undetermined
Family: Filistatidae

Funnel web (Kukulcania hibernalis)
Family: Lycosidae

Various wolf spiders, species undetermined
Family: Mimetidae

Species undetermined
Family: Miturgidae

Teminius sp.
Family: Oecobiidae

Species undetermined
Family: Philodromidae

Olios sp. (juvenile, right)
Family: Pholcidae

Species undetermined

Female Smeringopus sp.
Family: Pisauridae

Species undetermined
Family: Salticidae

Lyssomanes sp., female

Species undetermined - mimics an ant



Species undetermined
Family: Scytodidae
Scytodes sp.
Scytodes fusca with eggs
Family: Tetragnathidae
Species undetermined
Female Alcimosphenus licinus
Leucage argyra (female, left; mating)

Leucage regnyi
Family: Theraphosidae

Tarantula (Cyrtopholis
sp.) spiderlings exit their egg sac
Immature tarantulas - note
black spot of urticating hairs on abdomen

Adult tarantulas
Family: Theridiidae

Argyrodes elevatus (female)
Male, species undetermined
Possibly Argyodes elevatus

Species undetermined
Black Widow (Latrodectus mactans)
The lesser known but more venomous Brown Widow (Latrodectus
geometricus)
Family: Thomisidae

Possibly Misumenops asperatus
Female crab spider (Misumenops bellulus)

Crab spider, species undetermined
Unidentified Arachnids










Opilionids
Order: Opiliones
Species undetermined
Pseudoscorpions
Order: Pseudoscorpiones
Adult pseudoscorpion (Paratemnoides sp., family
Atemnidae) with young
Schizomids
Order: Schizomida
Species undetermined
Species undetermined
Scorpions
Order: Scorpiones

Centruroides barbudensis

Isometrus maculatus

Oiclus purvesii