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Genus: Piratula Roewer, 1960 | Family: Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833

Piratula hurkai (Buchar, 1966)

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Described:

Distribution: Ukraine, Caucasus (Russia, Georgia), Turkey

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Taxonomic References

Pirata hurkai Buchar, 1966a: 210, f. 1A-B, E-F, 2A, 4E (Dmf) Original description

Pirata hurkai Ovtsharenko, 1979: 40, f. 33 (m)

Pirata hurkai Mcheidze, 1997: 244, f. 529-530 (mf)

Pirata hurkai Nadolny & Kovblyuk, 2011: 176, f. 1, 6, 10, 16-31, 35-46 (mf)

Piratula hurkai Omelko, Marusik & Koponen, 2011: 216 (T from Pirata)

Piratula hurkai Türkeş, 2024b: 339, f. 2, 3A-B (m)

References

Buchar, J. (1966a). Beitrag zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Pirata-Arten (Araneae, Lycosidae). Věstník Československé Zoologické Společnosti v Praze 30: 210-218. -- Show included taxa

Mcheidze, T. S. (1997). [Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review]. Tbilisi University, 390 pp. (in Georgian). [[English version published by Otto (2014) available here]] -- Show included taxa

Nadolny, A. A. & Kovblyuk, M. M. (2011). The spider genus Pirata Sundevall, 1833 (Aranei: Lycosidae) in Crimea and Abkhazia. Arthropoda Selecta 20(3): 175-194. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.20.3.04 -- Show included taxa

Omelko, M. M., Marusik, Y. M. & Koponen, S. (2011). A survey of the east Palearctic Lycosidae (Aranei). 8. The genera Pirata Sundevall, 1833 and Piratula Roewer, 1960 in the Russian Far East. Arthropoda Selecta 20(3): 195-232. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.20.3.05 -- Show included taxa

Ovtsharenko, V. I. (1979). Spiders of the families Gnaphosidae, Thomisidae, Lycosidae (Aranei) in the Great Caucasus. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR, Leningrad 85: 39-53. -- Show included taxa

Türkeş, T. (2024b). Piratula hurkai (Buchar, 1966) (Araneae: Lycosidae) is a new record for Turkish spider fauna. Serket 20(3): 338-340. -- Show included taxa

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-11-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Türkeş, 2024b
2024-11-16	Species distribution update	Türkeş, 2024b	Old value