Pycnacantha

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

Pycnacantha
Scientific classification
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 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.


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