Piratula is a genus of wolf spiders first circumscribed in 1960. Its 26 species are found mainly in Asia, with a few found in Europe and North America.

Species

, the following species are recognised in the genus Piratula: Piratula borea (Tanaka, 1974) — Russia, China, Japan Piratula canadensis (Dondale & Redner, 1981) — Russia, Canada Piratula cantralli (Wallace & Exline, 1978) — USA, Canada Piratula clercki (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan Piratula denticulata (Liu, 1987) — Russia, China, Taiwan Piratula gigantea (Gertsch, 1934) — USA Piratula hiroshii (Tanaka, 1986) — Japan Piratula hokkaidensis (Tanaka, 2003) — Japan Piratula hurkai (Buchar, 1966) — Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Abkhazia Piratula hygrophila (Thorell, 1872) — Palearctic Piratula insularis (Emerton, 1885) — Holarctic Piratula iriomotensis (Tanaka, 1989) — Ryukyu Islands Piratula knorri (Scopoli, 1763) — Palearctic Piratula latitans (Blackwall, 1841) — Europe to Azerbaijan Piratula logunovi Omelko, Marusik & Koponen, 2011 — Russia Piratula longjiangensis (Yan et al., 1997) — China Piratula meridionalis (Tanaka, 1974) — China, Korea, Japan Piratula minuta (Emerton, 1885) — North America Piratula montigena (Liu, 1987) — China Piratula piratoides (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — Russia, Korea, China, Japan Piratula procurva (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) — China, Korea, Japan Piratula raika Zamani & Marusik, 2021 — Iran Piratula serrulata (Song & Wang, 1984) — Russia, China Piratula tanakai (Brignoli, 1983) — Russia, Korea, Japan Piratula tenuisetacea (Chai, 1987) — China Piratula uliginosa (Thorell, 1856) — Europe, Russia (Europe to West Siberia) Piratula yaginumai (Tanaka, 1974) — Russia, China, Korea, Japan Piratula yesoensis (Tanaka, 1985) — Japan

See also List of Lycosidae genera

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