# Pycnacantha

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
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| 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](/source/John_Blackwall), 1865<ref name=wsc />
| type_species = ''[P. tribulus](/source/Pycnacantha_tribulus)''
| type_species_authority = ([Fabricius](/source/Johan_Christian_Fabricius), 1781)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 4, see text
}}

'''''Pycnacantha''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [Africa](/source/Africa)n [orb-weaver spiders](/source/Araneidae) first described by [John Blackwall](/source/John_Blackwall) in 1865.<ref name=Blac1865 />

==Species==
{{as of|2025|9}}, this genus includes four species:<ref name="wsc" />
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* ''[Pycnacantha dinteri](/source/Pycnacantha_dinteri)'' <small>Meise, 1932</small> – [Namibia](/source/Namibia)
* ''[Pycnacantha echinotes](/source/Pycnacantha_echinotes)'' <small>Meise, 1932</small> – [Cameroon](/source/Cameroon)
* ''[Pycnacantha fuscosa](/source/Pycnacantha_fuscosa)'' <small>[Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1903</small> – [Madagascar](/source/Madagascar)
* ''[Pycnacantha tribulus](/source/Pycnacantha_tribulus)'' <small>([Fabricius](/source/Johan_Christian_Fabricius), 1781)</small> – [Malawi](/source/Malawi), [Zimbabwe](/source/Zimbabwe), [Mozambique](/source/Mozambique), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa) (type species)
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==References==
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  <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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