Spiders in Oklahoma

Oklahoma houses a wide variety of non-venomous spiders, with only two of them namely the brown recluse and the black widow being dangerous or deadly as per the Oklahoma Poison Control. Records of the Oklahoma State University mentions that the commonest spiders living here like those of the wolf, jumping and tarantula family are ground-dwelling.

Common spiders: Yellow Garden (Argiope aurantia), Banded Garden (Argiope trifasciata), Dark Fishing (Dolomedes tenebrosus), Oklahoma Brown Tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi)

Largest spiders: Members of the wolf (Lycosidae) and fishing (Dolomedes) family

Highly Venomous Spiders

Sicariidae

• Brown Recluse (Loxosceles reclusa)

Cobweb (Theridiidae)

• Southern Black Widow (Latrodectus mactans)
• Northern Black Widow (Latrodectus variolus)

Less Venomous Spiders

Orb-weaver (Araneidae)

• Furrow Orb-weaver (Larinioides cornutus)
• Orchard Orb-weaver (Leucauge venusta)
• Hentz Orb-weaver (Neoscona crucifera)
• Yellow Garden (Argiope aurantia)
• Banded Garden (Argiope trifasciata)
• Heptagonal Orb-weaver (Gea heptagon)

Cobweb (Theridiidae)

• Triangulate Cobweb (Steatoda triangulosa)

Nursery Web (Pisauridae)

• Dark Fishing (Dolomedes tenebrosus)
• Pisaurina dubia

Wolf (Lycosidae)

• Tiger Wolf (Tigrosa aspersa)
• Rabid Wolf (Rabidosa rabida)
• Tigrosa helluo
• Tigrosa georgicola
• Trochosa sepulchralis
• Trochosa terricola

Jumping (Salticidae)

• Bold Jumper (Phidippus audax)
• Tan Jumping (Platycryptus undatus)
• Dimorphic Jumper (Maevia inclemens)

Crab (Thomisidae)

• White-banded Crab (Misumenoides formosipes)

Tarantula (Theraphosidae)

• Oklahoma Brown Tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzi)

Spitting (Scytodidae)

• Scytodes longipes

Funnel Weaver (Agelenidae)

• Agelenopsis oklahoma