{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon=Pycnaxis | image = Takachihoa.truciformis.male.-.tanikawa.jpg | image_caption = ''T. truciformis'', male | image2 = Takachihoa.truciformis.female.-.tanikawa.jpg | image2_caption = ''T. truciformis'', female | authority=Simon, 1895<ref name=NMBE /> | type_species = ''Pycnaxis guttata'' | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 7, see text. }} '''''Pycnaxis''''' is a genus of Asian crab spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.<ref>{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1895| title=Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Thomisidae| journal = Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique| volume=39| pages=432–443}}</ref> They are endemic to eastern Asia from China to the Philippines.<ref name=NMBE />
== Species == {{As of|2017}} it contains seven species:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web|title=Thomisidae| website=World Spider Catalog| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| accessdate=2019-03-08| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3705}}</ref> * ''Pycnaxis guttata'' Simon, 1895 - Philippines * ''Pycnaxis krakatauensis'' (Bristowe, 1931) - Krakatau * ''Pycnaxis lamellaris'' (Tang & Li, 2010) - China * ''Pycnaxis nigrostriata'' (Simon, 1886) - Vietnam * ''Pycnaxis onoi'' (Zhang, Zhu & Tso, 2006) - Taiwan * ''Pycnaxis truciformis'' (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) - China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan * ''Pycnaxis tumida'' (Tang & Li, 2010) - China
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Category:Thomisidae genera Category:Spiders of Asia Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon {{Thomisidae-stub}}