The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/19057
Pirata aspirans Chamberlin, 1904
FAMILY: LYCOSIDAE Sundevall, 1833
Genus: Pirata Sundevall, 1833
Species: Pirata aspirans Chamberlin, 1904
Common Names
Family Common Name:
wolf spiders
Genus Common Name:
pirate wolf spiders
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: USA, Canada
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CO MO NH SC
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:‡
ground runners
‡Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280.
Recorded Habitats:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:
(images not yet available)
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Pirata aspirans Chamberlin 1904 |
| Pirata aspirans Chamberlin 1908 |
| Pirata arenicola Emerton 1909 |
| Pirata aspirans Comstock 1912 |
| Pirata insularis Comstock 1912 |
| Pirata arenicola Kaston 1938 |
| Pirata arenicola Kaston 1948 |
| Allocosa arenicola Roewer 1955 |
| Allocosa aspirans Roewer 1955 |
| Pirata aspirans Wallace & Exline 1978 |
| Pirata aspirans Dondale & Redner 1990 |
| Pirata aspirans Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
Taxonomic References†
Chamberlin, R. V. 1908. Revision of North American spiders of the family Lycosidae. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 60: 158-318.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1904. Three new Lycosidae. Canad. Ent. 36: 286-288.
Comstock, J. H. 1912. The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Garden City, New York, pp. 1-721
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1990. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Part 17. The wolf spiders, nurseryweb spiders, and lynx spiders of Canada and Alaska, Araneae: Lycosidae, Pisauridae, and Oxyopidae. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1856: 1-383.
Emerton, J. H. 1909. Supplement to the New England Spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 14: 171-236.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Kaston, B. J. 1938. Notes on little known New England spiders. Canad. Ent. 70: 12-17.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Roewer, C. F. 1955. Katalog der Araneen von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. Bruxelles, 2: 1-1751.
Wallace, H. K. & H. Exline. 1978. Spiders of the genus Pirata in North America, Central America and the West Indies (Araneae: Lycosidae). J. Arachnol. 5: 1-112.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/LYCOSIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Pirata Sundevall, 1833‡‡
P. alachuus Gertsch & Wallace, 1935 ...............USA
P. allapahae Gertsch, 1940 ...............USA
P. apalacheus Gertsch, 1940 ...............USA
P. bryantae Kurata, 1944 ...............Canada, Alaska
P. canadensis Dondale & Redner, 1981 ...............Canada
P. cantralli Wallace & Exline, 1978 ...............USA, Canada
P. davisi Wallace & Exline, 1978 ...............USA, Mexico
P. giganteus Gertsch, 1934 ...............USA
P. hiteorum Wallace & Exline, 1978 ...............USA
P. hygrophilus Thorell, 1872 ...............Palearctic
P. indigenus Wallace & Exline, 1978 ...............USA
P. insularis Emerton, 1885 ...............Holarctic
P. iviei Wallace & Exline, 1978 ...............USA
P. knorri (Scopoli, 1763) ...............Palearctic
P. mayaca Gertsch, 1940 ...............USA, Bahama Is., Cuba
P. minutus Emerton, 1885 ...............North America
P. montanoides Banks, 1892 ...............USA
P. montanus Emerton, 1885 ...............USA, Canada, Russia
P. nanatus Gertsch, 1940 ...............USA
P. piraticus (Clerck, 1757) ...............Holarctic
P. piratimorphus (Strand, 1908) ...............USA
P. piscatorius (Clerck, 1757) ...............Palearctic
P. sedentarius Montgomery, 1904 ...............North America, Greater Antilles
P. seminolus Gertsch & Wallace, 1935 ...............USA
P. spiniger (Simon, 1898) ...............USA
P. suwaneus Gertsch, 1940 ...............USA, Bahama Is.
P. sylvanus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944 ...............USA
P. triens Wallace & Exline, 1978 ...............USA
P. welakae Wallace & Exline, 1978 ...............USA
P. zelotes Wallace & Exline, 1978 ...............USA, Canada
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution