The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/19110

Pirata sedentarius Montgomery, 1904

FAMILY: LYCOSIDAE Sundevall, 1833
    Genus: Pirata Sundevall, 1833

        Species: Pirata sedentarius Montgomery, 1904

Common Names

Family Common Name:  wolf spiders
Genus Common Name:  pirate wolf spiders
Species Common Name:  none

Distribution

Global Distribution: North America, Greater Antilles
Nearctic States & Provinces:   CO IN MT NH PA TX
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:

   seasonality
Image(s) of Habitus:


Credit: Slowik, Joey

Details About Males

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of External Male Genitalia:


Credit: Slowik, Joey

Details About Females

Description:  (not yet recorded or unknown)

Image of Epigynum:


Credit: Slowik, Joey

Synonyms and Chresonyms

Lycosa wacondana Scheffer 1904
Pirata californica Banks 1904
Pirata sedentarius Montgomery 1904
Pirata maculatus Emerton 1909
Pirata wacondana Crosby & Bishop 1928
Pirata maculatus Kaston 1938
Pirata sedentarius Comstock 1940
Pirata maculatus Kaston 1948
Allocosa maculata Roewer 1955
Piratula sedentarius Roewer 1955
Pirata sedentarius Wallace & Exline 1978
Pirata sedentarius Dondale & Redner 1990
Pirata sedentarius Paquin & Dupérré 2003

Taxonomic References

Banks, N. 1904. Some Arachnida from California. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (3) 3: 331-376.

Comstock, J. H. 1940. The spider book, revised and edited by W. J. Gertsch. Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, xi + 727 pp.

Crosby, C. R. & S. C. Bishop. 1928. Araneae. In A list of the insects of New York. Mem. Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta. 101: 1034-1074.

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.

Montgomery, T. H. 1904. Descriptions of North American Araneae of the families Lycosidae and Pisauridae. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 56: 261-325.

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.

Scheffer, T. H. 1904. Four new spiders from Kansas. Ent. News 15: 257-260.

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. 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. 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. 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