Nearctic States & Provinces: AB CO CT ID IL MT NH NC OH OK SC VA WA
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/19081
Pirata insularis Emerton, 1885
FAMILY: LYCOSIDAE Sundevall, 1833
Genus: Pirata Sundevall, 1833
Species: Pirata insularis Emerton, 1885
Author of this page: Shorthouse, David P. (Page is in progress)
Common Names
Family Common Name:
wolf spiders
Genus Common Name:
pirate wolf spiders
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: Holarctic
Nearctic States & Provinces:
AB CO CT ID IL MT NH NC OH OK SC VA WA
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:
sphagnum bogs, marshes, margins of lakes, ponds, streams (Dondale & Redner, 1990).
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)
Male Dimensions:
A+B = 4.45 mm
A = 2.39 mm
C = 1.64 mm
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Female Dimensions:
A+B = 5.18 mm
A = 2.56 mm
C = 1.84 mm
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Descriptions Source:
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.
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Pirata insularis Emerton 1885 |
| Pardosa bilobata Tullgren 1901 |
| Pirata liber Montgomery 1902 |
| Pirata piccolo Dahl 1908 |
| Pirata insularis Emerton 1909 |
| Pirata piccolo Dahl & Dahl 1927 |
| Pirata insularis Kaston 1938 |
| Pirata piccolo Palmgren 1939 |
| Pirata insularis Comstock 1940 |
| Pirata insularis Muma 1943 |
| Pirata piccolo Holm 1947 |
| Pirata insularis Kaston 1948 |
| Pirata insularis Wallace 1950 |
| Pirata insularis Hackman 1954 |
| Allocosa insularis Roewer 1955 |
| Pirata piccolo Fuhn & Niculescu-Burlacu 1971 |
| Pirata piccolo Tyschchenko 1971 |
| Pirata insularis Wallace & Exline 1978 |
| Pirata piccolo Kronestedt 1980 |
| Pirata insularis Dondale & Redner 1981 |
| Pirata insularis Dondale & Redner 1990 |
| Pirata piccolo Heimer & Nentwig 1991 |
| Pirata insularis Roberts 1995 |
| Pirata piccolo Mcheidze 1997 |
| Pirata insularis Roberts 1998 |
| Pirata insularis Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Pirata insularis Almquist 2005 |
Taxonomic References†
Almquist, S. 2005. Swedish Araneae, part 1: families Atypidae to Hahniidae (Linyphiidae excluded). Insect Syst. Ecol., Suppl. 62: 1-284.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1908. Revision of North American spiders of the family Lycosidae. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 60: 158-318.
Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.
Dahl, F. 1908. Die Lycosiden oder Wolfsspinnen Deutschlands und ihre Stellung im Haushalt der Natur. Nach statistichen Untersuchungen dargestellt. Nov. Act. Acad. Caes. Leopold.-Carol. 88: 175-678.
Dahl, F. & M. Dahl. 1927. Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea. Lycosidae s. lat. (Wolfspinnen im weiteren Sinne). In Die Tierwelt Deutschlands. Jena, 5: 1-80.
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.
Dondale, C. D. & J. H. Redner. 1981. Description of a new wolf spider in the genus Pirata (Araneae: Lycosidae). Psyche, Camb. 87: 193-197.
Emerton, J. H. 1909. Supplement to the New England Spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 14: 171-236.
Emerton, J. H. 1885. New England Lycosidae. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 6: 481-505.
Fuhn, I. E. & F. Niculescu-Burlacu. 1971. Fam. Lycosidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5(3): 1-253.
Hackman, W. 1954. The spiders of Newfoundland. Acta zool. fenn. 79: 1-99.
Heimer, S. & W. Nentwig. 1991. Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Verlag Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp.
Holm, Å. 1947. Svensk Spindelfauna III. Oxyopidae, Lycosidae, Pisauridae. Stockholm, pp. 1-48.
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.
Kronestedt, T. 1980. Comparison between Pirata tenuitarsis Simon, new to Sweden and England, and P. piraticus (Clerck), with notes on taxonomic characters in male Pirata (Araneae: Lycosidae). Entomologica scand. 11: 65-77.
Mcheidze, T. S. 1997. [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi Univ., 390 pp. (in Georgian).
Montgomery, T. H. 1902. Descriptions of Lycosidae and Oxyopidae of Philadelphia and its vicinity. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 54: 534-592.
Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.
Palmgren, P. 1939. Die Spinnenfauna Finnlands. I. Lycosidae. Acta Zool. Fennica 25: 1-86.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Roberts, M. J. 1998. Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp.
Roberts, M. J. 1995. Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
Roewer, C. F. 1955. Katalog der Araneen von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. Bruxelles, 2: 1-1751.
Tullgren, A. 1901. On the spiders collected in Florida by Dr Einer Lönnberg 1892-93. Bih. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. 27(4;1): 1-29.
Tyschchenko, V. P. 1971. Opredelitel' paukov evropejskoj casti SSSR. Leningrad, pp. 1-281.
Wallace, H. K. 1950. On Tullgren's Florida Spiders. Florida Ent. 33: 71-83.
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
Natural History References
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.
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. aspirans Chamberlin, 1904 ...............USA, Canada
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. 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
Page Reference:
Shorthouse, David P. in prep. Taxonomic and natural history description of FAM: LYCOSIDAE, Pirata insularis Emerton, 1885.
In: The Nearctic Spider Database. David P. Shorthouse (editor). World Wide Web electronic publication. Direct link: http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/19081 (Accessed: 10/13/2008 5:24:44 AM).
Author Email Address: dshorthouse@eol.org
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