Spider Families
Across
- 5. Ant-mimicking/“pirate” spiders
- 7. Running crab-spiders, very fast predators
- 11. Mouse-trap-like mygalomorph spiders
- 13. Long-jawed orb-weavers
- 14. Large tropical wandering spiders
- 18. Palm- and rock-dwelling palpimanid spiders
- 19. Cribellate orb-weavers lacking venom glands
- 20. Jumping spiders — excellent vision
- 23. Wall-dwellers with small, wheel-like webs
- 24. Web-builders in moist habitats, often under stones
- 25. Ground-running night hunters
Down
- 1. Crab-spiders, ambush specialists on flowers
- 2. Ant-eating ground spiders
- 3. Cellar-and cave-dwelling long-legged spiders
- 4. Sheet-weavers,tiny spiders often in grassy vegetation
- 6. Orb-weavers, often in gardens
- 8. Recluse/violin spiders — sometimes medically significant
- 9. Classic funnel-web builders
- 10. Cobweb spiders including black-widow relatives
- 12. Tarantulas and kin — large hairy mygalomorphs
- 15. Nursery-web and fishing spiders
- 16. Lynx spiders with spiny legs, fast jumpers
- 17. Huntsman / giant crab-spiders
- 21. False wolf-spiders — superficially like Lycosidae
- 22. Wolf spiders — diurnal hunters