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