PRAIRIE SPIDERS

There are about 700 species of spiders known for Ohio, nearly 150 known for our prairie. The lists are constantly growing because we have only a fragmentary knowledge at this point.  In this gallery of photos you see a few examples of the spiders from the prairie.  For many tiny and shy species, we have no good photographs, yet.  So this is a small subset of the amazing diversity of our beautiful spiders!

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Acanthepeira stellata
Agelenopsis pennsylvanica
Araneus marmoreus
Araneus trifolium
Araniella displicata
Argiope aurantia
Argiope trifasciata
Castianeira longipalpa
Clubiona abboti
Cyclosa turbinata
Dictyna foliaceae
Drassylus depressus
Emblyna hentzi
Herpyllus-ecclesiasticus
Larinia directa
Micaria elizabethae
Micrathena gracilis
Neoscona arabesca
Neoscona crucifera
Sergiolus capulatus
Wulfila saltabundus