Pirata (spider)

Pirata is a genus of wolf spiders (family Lycosidae), commonly known as pirate wolf spiders.

Pirata
Pirata piraticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Lycosidae
Genus: Pirata
Sundevall, 1833

Distribution

Species of this genus are present in most of Europe.[1]

Species

The genus Pirata contains the following fifty species:[2]

  • Pirata abalosi (Mello-Leitão, 1942) – Argentina
  • Pirata affinis Roewer, 1960 – Congo
  • Pirata africana (Roewer, 1960) – Namibia
  • Pirata alachuus Gertsch & Wallace, 1935 – USA
  • Pirata allapahae Gertsch, 1940 – USA
  • Pirata apalacheus Gertsch, 1940 – USA
  • Pirata aspirans Chamberlin, 1904 – USA, Canada
  • Pirata brevipes (Banks, 1893) – Congo
  • Pirata browni Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico
  • Pirata bryantae Kurata, 1944 – Canada, Alaska
  • Pirata chamberlini (Lessert, 1927) – Congo, eastern Africa
  • Pirata coreanus Paik, 1991 – Korea
  • Pirata davisi Wallace & Exline, 1978 – USA, Mexico
  • Pirata digitatus Tso & Chen, 2004 – Taiwan
  • Pirata felix O. P.-Cambridge, 1898 – Mexico
  • Pirata hiteorum Wallace & Exline, 1978 – USA
  • Pirata indigenus Wallace & Exline, 1978 – USA
  • Pirata iviei Wallace & Exline, 1978 – USA
  • Pirata mayaca Gertsch, 1940 – USA, Bahamas, Cuba
  • Pirata montanoides Banks, 1892 – USA
  • Pirata montanus Emerton, 1885 – USA, Canada, Russia
  • Pirata nanatus Gertsch, 1940 – USA
  • Pirata niokolona Roewer, 1961 – Senegal
  • Pirata pagicola Chamberlin, 1925 – Central America, Mexico
  • Pirata pallipes (Blackwall, 1857) – Algeria
  • Pirata piratellus (Strand, 1907) – Japan
  • Pirata piraticus (Clerck, 1757) – Holarctic Region
  • Pirata piratimorphus (Strand, 1908) – USA
  • Pirata piscatorius (Clerck, 1757) – Palearctic Region
  • Pirata praedo Kulczynski, 1885 – Russia (Urals to Far East), Mongolia, China, Japan, USA, Canada
  • Pirata proximus O. P.-Cambridge, 1876 – Egypt
  • Pirata sagitta (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina
  • Pirata sedentarius Montgomery, 1904 – North America, Greater Antilles
  • Pirata seminolus Gertsch & Wallace, 1935 – USA
  • Pirata soukupi (Mello-Leitão, 1942) – Peru
  • Pirata spatulatus Chai, 1985 – China
  • Pirata spiniger (Simon, 1898) – USA
  • Pirata subannulipes (Strand, 1906) – Ethiopia
  • Pirata subpiraticus (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), Korea, China, Japan, Indonesia (Java), Philippines
  • Pirata suwaneus Gertsch, 1940 – USA, Bahamas
  • Pirata sylvanus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 – USA
  • Pirata tenuitarsis Simon, 1876 – Europe to Mongolia
  • Pirata timidus (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
  • Pirata trepidus Roewer, 1960 – Namibia
  • Pirata triens Wallace & Exline, 1978 – USA
  • Pirata turrialbicus Wallace & Exline, 1978 – Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba
  • Pirata veracruzae Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico
  • Pirata welakae Wallace & Exline, 1978 – USA
  • Pirata werneri (Roewer, 1960) – Morocco
  • Pirata zavattarii (Caporiacco, 1941) – Ethiopia

References
  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. "Gen. Pirata Sundevall, 1833". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
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