Pycnacantha

Pycnacantha is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by John Blackwall in 1865.^[2]

Pycnacantha
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Pycnacantha Blackwall, 1865[1]
Type species
P. tribulus (Fabricius, 1781)
Species
4, see text

Species

As of April 2019^[update] it contains four species:^[1]

• Pycnacantha dinteri Meise, 1932 – Namibia
• Pycnacantha echinotes Meise, 1932 – Cameroon
• Pycnacantha fuscosa Simon, 1903 – Madagascar
• Pycnacantha tribulus (Fabricius, 1781) (type) – Central, South Africa

References

1. "Gen. Pycnacantha Blackwall, 1865". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
2. Blackwall, J. (1865). "Descriptions of recently discovered species and characters of a new genus, of Araneida from the East of Central Africa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 16 (3): 336–352. doi:10.1080/00222936508679441.