Pirata (spider)
# Pirata (spider)

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
