{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | name = | image = Daturina hystrix Thorell 1877.jpg | image_caption = 1877 drawing of ''P. tribulus'' | image2 = Pycnacantha tribulus female.jpg | image2_caption = female ''P. tribulus'' | taxon = Pycnacantha | authority = Blackwall, 1865<ref name=wsc /> | type_species = ''P. tribulus'' | type_species_authority = (Fabricius, 1781) | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 4, see text }}
'''''Pycnacantha''''' is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by John Blackwall in 1865.<ref name=Blac1865 />
==Species== {{as of|2025|9}}, this genus includes four species:<ref name="wsc" /> {{Div col}} * ''Pycnacantha dinteri'' <small>Meise, 1932</small> – Namibia * ''Pycnacantha echinotes'' <small>Meise, 1932</small> – Cameroon * ''Pycnacantha fuscosa'' <small>Simon, 1903</small> – Madagascar * ''Pycnacantha tribulus'' <small>(Fabricius, 1781)</small> – Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa (type species) {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="wsc">{{cite web | url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/397 | title=Genus Pycnacantha | publisher=World Spider Catalog | accessdate=26 September 2025}}</ref> <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> }}
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Category:Araneidae Category:Araneomorphae genera Category:Spiders of Africa Category:Taxa named by John Blackwall
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