SPIDERS OF CALIFORNIA
In 1979 Steve Johnson made a list of all spiders known from California.
He had essentially unlimited literature resources as a graduate student
of B. J. Kaston, and also benefited from the expert assistance of Wendell
Icenogle. I began this website as by digitizing his list as reformatted
by Donald Boe in 1989, with lab support form Rosemary Gillespie and coding
assistance from Chris Seidel. As time permits I update the list using more
recent publications and personal communication from skilled collectors
known to me.
HUZZAHS UNTO: All those named above, Rick Vetter, Tom Prentice,
Darrell Ubick, Joe Spagna, Pierre Paquin, Marshall Hedin, Blaine Hebert,
At the moment (Jan 4 2004), it's just a checklist annotated with county records
and literature ref's. Check back soon (or not so soon) for more recent
collection records. Check back later (or much later) and there may
be images, maps, keys, who knows...
Please email me with any corrections or comments, but please do not
email me about whether the spider laying eggs in your brain is poisonous
until you've read the disclaimer at the bottom of the page.
anotherstevelew AT gemail DOT com
On each page, taxa are listed alphabetically by family, then genus,
then species.
MYGALOMORPHAE
Updated (taxonomy only) August 2003
Antrodiaetidae; Ctenizidae; Cyrtaucheniidae; Mecicobothriidae; Nemesiidae;
Theraphosidae
LOWER ARANEOMORPHAE
Updated (taxonomy only) August 2003
Caponiidae; Diguetidae; Dysderidae; Filistatidae; Hypochilidae; Leptonetidae;
Mimetidae; Oecobiidae; Oonopidae; Pholcidae; Plectreuridae; Scytodidae;
Segestriidae; Sicariidae; Telemidae
ORBICULARIAE
Anapidae; Araneidae; Linyphiidae; Mysmenidae; Nesticidae; Pimoidae; Tetragnathidae;
Theridiidae; Uloboridae
LOWER (ie 3-clawed)RTA CLADE
Agelenidae; Amaurobiidae; Cybaeidae; Desidae; Dictynidae; Hahniidae; Lycosidae;
Oxyopidae; Titanoecidae; Zodariidae
DIONYCHA (incl. all former
clubionids)
Anyphaenidae, Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Gnaphosidae, Homalonychidae, Liocranidae,
Mitugidae, Philodromidae, Prodidomidae, Salticidae, Sparassidae, Tengellidae,
Thomisidae, Zoridae
BIBLIOGRAPHY -under construction. Email me if you need a reference
before I get around to uploading it. Or see Platnick's exhaustive
World
Spider Catalog bibliography.
LINKS:
Brown Recluse identification
Hobo Spider Identification
Spider Myths
Site
International Society of Arachnology
American Arachnological
Society
Spiders
on the Tree of Life
The
World Spider Catalog
Spiders of North America
Spiders
of Baja California
Spiders of Los Angeles County
If you've found a spider
in your yard/bathtub/laying-eggs-in-your-brain and you want to know what
it is, you may find this website less helpful than you were hoping it would
be. Most people who email me get this
friendly and informative prefab response. It is not meant to stifle
your curiosity, and you should by all means contact me if it is unsatisfying.