Pirata (spider)

Pirata
Pirata piraticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Lycosidae
Genus:	Pirata Sundevall, 1833 [1]

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

Distribution

Spiders in this genus have been described from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, with few reaching down to Argentina. ^[1]

They are found in most of Europe. ^[2]

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes 49 species: ^[1]

• Pirata affinis Roewer, 1960 – DR Congo
• Pirata africanus (Roewer, 1960) – Namibia
• Pirata alachuus Gertsch & Wallace, 1935 – United States
• Pirata allapahae Gertsch, 1940 – United States
• Pirata apalacheus Gertsch, 1940 – United States
• Pirata aspirans Chamberlin, 1904 – Canada, United States
• Pirata brevipes (Banks, 1893) – DR Congo (region)
• Pirata browni Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico
• Pirata bryantae Kurata, 1944 – Alaska, Canada
• Pirata chamberlini (Lessert, 1927) – DR Congo, Tanzania
• Pirata coreanus Paik, 1991 – Korea
• Pirata davisi Wallace & Exline, 1978 – United States, Mexico
• Pirata digitatus Tso & Chen, 2004 – Taiwan
• Pirata felix O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 – Mexico
• Pirata hiteorum Wallace & Exline, 1978 – United States
• Pirata indigena Wallace & Exline, 1978 – United States
• Pirata iviei Wallace & Exline, 1978 – United States
• Pirata mayaca Gertsch, 1940 – United States, Bahama Islands, Cuba
• Pirata montanoides Banks, 1892 – Canada, United States
• Pirata montanus Emerton, 1885 – Russia (Kurile Is.), Canada, United States
• Pirata nanatus Gertsch, 1940 – United States
• Pirata niokolona Roewer, 1961 – Senegal
• Pirata pagicola Chamberlin, 1925 – Mexico to Panama
• Pirata pallipes (Blackwall, 1857) – Algeria
• Pirata piratellus (Strand, 1907) – Japan
• Pirata piraticus (Clerck, 1757) – North America, Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Kazakhstan, Iran, Central Asia, China, Japan (type species)
• Pirata piratimorphus (Strand, 1908) – United States
• Pirata piscatorius (Clerck, 1757) – Europe, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia)
• Pirata praedo Kulczyński, 1885 – Russia (Urals to Far East), Mongolia, China, Japan, Canada, United States
• Pirata proximus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 – Egypt
• Pirata punctipes (Gravely, 1924) – India
• Pirata sagitta (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina
• Pirata sedentarius Montgomery, 1904 – North America, Greater Antilles
• Pirata seminolus Gertsch & Wallace, 1935 – United States
• Pirata spatulatus Chai, 1985 – China
• Pirata spiniger (Simon, 1898) – United States
• Pirata subannulipes (Strand, 1906) – Ethiopia
• Pirata subpiraticus (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) – Russia (Far East), Korea, China, Japan, Indonesia (Java), Philippines
• Pirata suwaneus Gertsch, 1940 – United States, Bahama Is.
• Pirata sylvanus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 – United States
• Pirata tenuitarsis Simon, 1876 – Europe to Mongolia
• Pirata timidus (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
• Pirata trepidus Roewer, 1960 – Namibia
• Pirata triens Wallace & Exline, 1978 – United States
• Pirata turrialbicus Wallace & Exline, 1978 – Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba
• Pirata veracruzae Gertsch & Davis, 1940 – Mexico
• Pirata welakae Wallace & Exline, 1978 – United States
• Pirata werneri (Roewer, 1960) – Morocco
• Pirata zavattarii (Caporiacco, 1941) – Ethiopia

References

1. "Genus Pirata". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-02.
2. Fauna Europaea