Arachnids of North Carolina
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Pirata apalacheus - a pirate wolf spider

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Taxonomy
Order: ARANEAEInfraorder: ARANEOMORPHAEFamily: LYCOSIDAE                                                                                 
Identification
Online Description/Photos: BugGuide Google, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, GBIF
Comments: wide marginal light area, narrowly and unevenly pigmented along the edges, the usual tuning-for k mark fading out between the eyes (Fig . 20). Anterior eye row distinctly procurved, much narrower than posterior median eye row, anterior eyes evenly spaced, anterior median eyes about half again as large as anterior lateral eyes (Fig . 22). Height of clypeus is equal to the diameter of an anterior median eye, slanted posteriorly . Legs with indistinc t annulae . The median apophysis of palp is quite characteristic in shape with a light-colore d tip
Total Length: Carapace 1 .67 mm long, 1 .20 mm wide
Distribution in North Carolina
Comments: Southeastern United States
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Adult phenology:
 High Mountains (HM) ≥ 4,000 ft.
 Low Mountains (LM) < 4,000 ft.
 Piedmont (Pd)
 Coastal Plain (CP)

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Habitats and Life History
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Abundance/Frequency: This is evidently a summer species . In Florida males have been take n from April through August and females from March through October with a preponderance in June and July ; females with egg sacs have been collected from May throug h August
Behavior: P. apalacheus differs from most other species of Pirata in its occurrence
away from water . The type locality was a rotten log in a mesic hammock far from the
nearest pond or stream . H. W . Weems, Jr., collected it in pine needle litter in June i n
Alachua Co ., Florida. H . G. Parrish collected it in leaf litter in a mesic hammock in
Alchua Co., Florida . Alan Brady collected it under leaves and logs in Highland Hammoc k
State Park, Florida . At Tall Timbers Research Station in Leon Co ., Florida, many collections were made in pitfalls in various types of terrestrial situations away from water,
annually burned pine woods, broom sedge-pine, woodyard hammock, beech woods ,
spruce pine, hickory-sweet gum association, etc . In Everglades Park, Florida, it has bee n
collected in pitfalls in hardwood hammock . It appears to be a humus-loving form .
Status in North Carolina
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