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Family: PISAURIDAE Simon, 1890

nursery web spiders

Similar Families

LYCOSIDAE TRECHALEIDAE

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Nearctic Taxonomic/Species Richness

Number of Nearctic Species: 13 (as documented in the World Spider Catalog & includes introductions)

Nearctic/Palearctic Genera

#	Genus	Ref.	Common Name
1	Dolomedes Latreille, 1804		fishing spiders
2	Pisaura Simon, 1885
3	Pisaurina Simon, 1898
4	Tinus F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901

Nearctic/Palearctic Species Images

Dolomedes albineus Hentz, 1845 Dolomedes fimbriatus (Clerck, 1757) Dolomedes scriptus Hentz, 1845 Dolomedes tenebrosus Hentz, 1844 Dolomedes triton (Walckenaer, 1837) Dolomedes vittatus Walckenaer, 1837 Pisaura mirabilis (Clerck, 1757) Pisaurina brevipes (Emerton, 1911) Pisaurina dubia (Hentz, 1847) Pisaurina mira (Walckenaer, 1837)

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