Pirata (spider)

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

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.

Species

The genus Pirata contains the following fifty species:

• 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