Pirata (spider) explained

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

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

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20060928160531/http://www.faunaeur.org/distribution_table.php Fauna Europaea
2. 2022 . Gen. Pirata Sundevall, 1833 . World Spider Catalog Version 23.0 . Natural History Museum Bern . 10.24436/2 . 26 April 2022.