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Genus Piratula

Piratula cantralli - Piratula insularis - male Piratula minuta--voucher image - Piratula minuta - female Piratula minuta--voucher image - Piratula minuta - female Piratula cantralli--voucher image - Piratula cantralli - female Piratula cantralli--voucher image - Piratula cantralli - female Piratula canadensis--voucher image - Piratula canadensis - female Piratula insularis - female Piratula insularis - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Lycosidae (Wolf Spiders)
Genus Piratula
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Species were previously included in genus Pirata.
"Piratula Roewer, 1960 removed from the synonymy of Pirata Sundevall, 1833 by Omelko, Marusik & Koponen, 2011: 213, contra Dondale & Redner, 1981b: 107."(1)
Explanation of Names
Author of the genus: Roewer. Year first published: 1960.
Numbers
5 species in BugGuide's range.
Range
[all moved from Pirata in 2011]

Exact distribution within these countries will be added when time allows.

Piratula canadensis — Russia (Far East, Kamchatka), Canada; "East Asian-Nearctic range and occurs in Canada (from British Columbia to Nova Scotia) and the Far East of Russia (Kamchatka and Khabarovsk Province)"(2); BC, MB, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK(3)

Piratula cantralli — USA, Canada; "Western Northwest Territories to New Brunswick, south to Michigan."; AB, MB, ME, MI, NB, NT, ON, QC(3)

P. gigantea — USA
P. insularis — Holarctic
P. minuta — North America
Works Cited
1.The World Spider Catalog by Norman I. Platnick
2.A survey of the East Palaearctic Lycosidae (Aranei). 8. The genera Pirata Sundevall, 1833 and Piratula Roewer, 1960
Mikhail M. Omelko, Yuri M. Marusik, Seppo Koponen. 2011. Arthropoda Selecta 20(3): 195-232.
3.The Wolf Spiders, Nurseryweb Spiders, and Lynx Spiders of Canada and Alaska
Dondale, Charles D. and James H. Redner. 1990. Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Ottawa.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 16 January, 2012 - 10:21am
Additional contributions by Mandy Howe, Laura P.
Last updated 3 May, 2021 - 3:30pm

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