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

Pycnacantha
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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

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

References

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  1. ^ a b "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.