Agelenidae - Funnelweb Weavers Linyphiidae - Line Weaving Spiders Scytodidae - Spitting Spiders
Amaurobiidae - Hackledmesh Weavers Liocranidae - Spiny-legged Sac Spiders Segestriidae - Six-eyed Spiders
Anyphaenidae - Buzzing Spiders Lycosidae - Wolf Spiders Sicariidae - Violin Spiders
Araneidae - Typical Orb Weavers Mimetidae - Pirate Spiders Sparassidae - Giant Crab Spiders
Atypidae - Purse-Web Weavers Miturgidae - Prowling Spiders Synaphridae - Midget Spiders
Clubionidae - Foliage Spiders Mysmenidae - Dwarf cobweb spiders Tetragnathidae - Long-jawed Orb Weavers
Corinnidae - Ant-like Sac Spiders Nesticidae - Comb-footed Cellar Spiders Theridiidae - Comb-footed Spiders
Ctenizidae - Cork-Lid Trapdoor Spiders Oecobiidae - Starlegged Spiders Theridiosomatidae - Ray Spiders
Cybaeidae - Pond Water Spiders Oonopidae - Dwarf Cell Spiders Thomisidae - Typical Crab Spiders
Dictynidae - Meshweb Weavers Oxyopidae - Lynx Spiders Titanoecidae - Rock Weavers
Dysderidae - Woodlouse Spiders Palpimanidae - Palp-footed Spiders Uloboridae - Cribellate Orb Weavers
Eresidae - Velvet Spiders Philodromidae - Running Crab Spiders Zodariidae - Spotted Ground Spiders
Filistatidae - Crevice Weavers Pholcidae - Cellar Spiders Zoridae - Wandering Spiders
Gnaphosidae - Ground Spiders Pisauridae - Nursery-web Spiders Zoropsidae - False Wolf Spiders
Hahniidae - Lesser Cobweb Spiders Salticidae - Jumping spiders
Agelenidae - Funnelweb Weavers Amaurobiidae - Hackledmesh Weavers Anyphaenidae - Buzzing Spiders
Araneidae - Typical Orb Weavers Atypidae - Purse-Web Weavers Clubionidae - Foliage Spiders
Corinnidae - Ant-like Sac Spiders Ctenizidae - Cork-Lid Trapdoor Spiders Cybaeidae - Pond Water Spiders
Dictynidae - Meshweb Weavers Dysderidae - Woodlouse Spiders Eresidae - Velvet Spiders
Filistatidae - Crevice Weavers Gnaphosidae - Ground Spiders Hahniidae - Lesser Cobweb Spiders
Linyphiidae - Line Weaving Spiders Liocranidae - Spiny-legged Sac Spiders Lycosidae - Wolf Spiders
Mimetidae - Pirate Spiders Miturgidae - Prowling Spiders Mysmenidae - Dwarf cobweb spiders
Nesticidae - Comb-footed Cellar Spiders Oecobiidae - Starlegged Spiders Oonopidae - Dwarf Cell Spiders
Oxyopidae - Lynx Spiders Palpimanidae - Palp-footed Spiders Philodromidae - Running Crab Spiders
Pholcidae - Cellar Spiders Pisauridae - Nursery-web Spiders Salticidae - Jumping spiders
Scytodidae - Spitting Spiders Segestriidae - Six-eyed Spiders Sicariidae - Violin Spiders
Sparassidae - Giant Crab Spiders Synaphridae - Midget Spiders Tetragnathidae - Long-jawed Orb Weavers
Theridiidae - Comb-footed Spiders Theridiosomatidae - Ray Spiders Thomisidae - Typical Crab Spiders
Titanoecidae - Rock Weavers Uloboridae - Cribellate Orb Weavers Zodariidae - Spotted Ground Spiders
Zoridae - Wandering Spiders Zoropsidae - False Wolf Spiders
The image galleries are ordered by spider family. You can go directly to the desired family by clicking a family link. In case you want to identify a spider without knowing which family it belongs to you can narrow the number of possible families by comparing your specimen with images of family representatives below. Additional help to select the right family can be found on the websites Central European Spiders - Determination Key and Araneae, Spiders of North-West Europe.
Using the Fauna Europaea Database Version 2009.1 by P.J. van Helsdingen it has been possible for me to add a regional species filter for 69 European regions. With the special page for Greenland my web site thus provides the opportunity to filter for 70 regions. Hopefully this feature will help identification, as the number of species present in a given region is less than the total number of species of the regions combined. With the filter option on each family page lists species not having images thus providing clues for species to Google on the Internet if my web site fails to help you. Note that the regional lists of van Helsdingen only concerns published data of spider distribution. Some regions have only few published records and some regional lists may lack recently recorded species. Data for Denmark and the Faroes has been updated with unpublished records.
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