Lycosidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Piratula  Roewer, 1960   6 species

Piratula insularis  (Emerton, 1885)

Description
Male

Sternum with round lateral mark and a thin bright line. Opisthosoma with dorsal mark brighter than marks on prosoma. Tip of metatarsus I with 3-4 spines.

Body length male: 3-5 mm
Female

Prosoma not longer than 2 mm. Sternum with round lateral mark and a thin bright line. Opisthosoma with dorsal mark brighter than marks on Prosoma.

Body length female: 3-5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North America, Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Middle Siberia)
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Austria   (Milasowszky & Waitzbauer , 2008) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Belarus   (Ivanov, 2013) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Estonia   (no references) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Germany   (no references) ||| Latvia   (Cera, 2018) ||| Lithuania   (no references) ||| Norway   (Aakra & Hauge, 2003) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka & Stanska, 2008) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Central   (no references) ||| Russia, Eastern   (no references) ||| Russia, Kaliningrad Region   (no references) ||| Russia, Northern   (no references) ||| Sweden   (Kronestedt, 2001) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Demircan & Topçu, 2011; Zamani et al., 2022a) |||
References

Aakra K, Hauge E (2003) Checklist of Norwegian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 50: 109-129 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Cera I (2018) The checklist of Latvian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Environmental and Experimental Biology 16: 139-152 pdf

Dahl M (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII: Hahniidae, Argyronetidae. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 100-118 pdf

Demircan N, Topçu A (2011) New records of family Lycosidae (Araneae) in Turkey. Serket 12: 135-140 pdf

Fuhn I E, Niculescu-Burlacu F (1971) Fam. Lycosidae. Fauna Republicii Socialiste România (Arachnida) 5 (3): 1-253 pdf

Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin pdf

Ivanov V V (2013) The checklist of Belarusian spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoology and Ecology 4: 293-311 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Kronestedt T (2001) Checklist of Spiders (Araneae) in Sweden [Preliminary version February 2001] pdf

Løvbrekke H (unpubl.)

Milasowszky N, Waitzbauer W (2008) Die Spinnenfauna (Araneae) des Seedammes im Nationalpark Neusiedler See - Seewinkel. Abhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft Österreich 37: 93-105 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp. pdf

Roberts M J (1998) Spinnengids. Tirion, Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. pdf

Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Zamani A, Nadolny A A, Esyunin S L, Marusik Y M (2022a) New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part IX. Arachnology 19: 358-384 pdf

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