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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae) » Pirate Wolf Spiders (Pirata)
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Fishing Spider - Pirata - female
Copyright © 2006 Peter Hollinger

Fishing Spider - Pirata - Female
Sharon, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
July 9, 2005
There's a red mite(?) on the hind leg.

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Contributed by Peter Hollinger on 26 February, 2006 - 5:42pm
Last updated 26 March, 2006 - 4:56pm

Pirata insularis
according to How to Know the Spiders by B.J. Kaston
… Omar Fahmy, 4 March, 2006 - 12:55pm login or register to post comments

Wolf spider
Probably Pirata sp.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 26 February, 2006 - 6:11pm login or register to post comments

 
good call,
i was thinking immature D. triton, but now that you point it out i think you might be right. the eye arrangement suggests a Lycosid, not a Pisaurid. it would help if we knew the size. Pirata are considerably smaller than D. triton
… Omar Fahmy, 26 February, 2006 - 10:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Do Pirata go on the water lik
Do Pirata go on the water like fishing spiders? I'm afraid I don't have an accurate measure, but it seemed fairly big, maybe 0.5" for the body and 1.5" with the legs. Almost as big as the one shown here.
… Peter Hollinger, 26 February, 2006 - 10:46pm login or register to post comments

 
That
seems a little large for a Pirata.
Pirata does hunt on the water, and is found near water.
The spider in the linked image looks more like a Dolomedes than a wolf spider.
I am 99% sure you found a Pirata.
See Tom's images.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 26 February, 2006 - 10:58pm login or register to post comments

 
with you
im with you on this one jeff. again the most important thing eye arrangement. Lyocosids have a 4,2,2 eye arrangement from the chelicera up, while Pisaurids have a 4,4 eye arrangement. this looks like a 4,2,2 which would make it Pirata. less importantly i have never seen a Dolomedes with such a curved carapace
… Omar Fahmy, 27 February, 2006 - 7:27am login or register to post comments

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