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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
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{{Automatic taxobox| taxon=Pycnacantha| authority=Blackwall<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web|title=Araneidae| website=World Spider Catalog| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| accessdate=2017-01-16 |url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/397}}</ref>|subdivision_ranks = Species
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| authority = [[John Blackwall|Blackwall]], 1865<ref name=NMBE />
|[[Pycnacantha dinteri]]|<small>Meise, 1932</small>
|[[Pycnacantha echinotes]]|<small>Meise, 1932</small>
| type_species = ''[[Pycnacantha tribulus|P. tribulus]]''
| type_species_authority = ([[Johan Christian Fabricius|Fabricius]], 1781)
|[[Pycnacantha fuscosa]]|<small>Simon, 1903</small>
| subdivision_ranks = Species
|[[Pycnacantha tribulus]]|<small>(Fabricius, 1781)</small>
| subdivision = 4, [[#Species|see text]]
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'''''Pycnacantha''''' is a genus of spiders in the [[Araneidae]] family. It was first described in 1865 by Blackwall. {{As of|2017}}, it contains 4 African species.<ref name=NMBE />
'''''Pycnacantha''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Africa]]n [[Araneidae|orb-weaver spiders]] first described by [[John Blackwall]] in 1865.<ref name=Blac1865>{{cite journal| last=Blackwall| first=J.| year=1865| title=Descriptions of recently discovered species and characters of a new genus, of Araneida from the East of Central Africa.| journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History| pages=336–352| volume=16| issue=3| doi=10.1080/00222936508679441}}</ref>

==Species==
{{as of|2019|04}} it contains four species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Pycnacantha Blackwall, 1865| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-05-15| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/397| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
*''[[Pycnacantha dinteri]]'' <small>Meise, 1932</small> – Namibia
*''[[Pycnacantha echinotes]]'' <small>Meise, 1932</small> – Cameroon
*''[[Pycnacantha fuscosa]]'' <small>[[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1903</small> – Madagascar
*''[[Pycnacantha tribulus]]'' <small>(Fabricius, 1781)</small> ([[Type species|type]]) – Central, South Africa

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[[Category:Araneidae]]
[[Category:Araneidae]]
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[[Category:Araneomorphae genera]]
[[Category:Spiders of Africa]]
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Latest revision as of 17:39, 11 September 2022

Pycnacantha
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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

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.