# Pycnaxis

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{{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](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1895<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[Pycnaxis guttata](/source/Pycnaxis_guttata)''
| subdivision_ranks = [Species](/source/Species)
| subdivision = 7, see text.
}}
'''''Pycnaxis''''' is a genus of Asian [crab spiders](/source/Thomisidae) first described by [Eugène Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_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](/source/Pycnaxis_guttata)'' Simon, 1895 - Philippines
* ''[Pycnaxis krakatauensis](/source/Pycnaxis_krakatauensis)'' (Bristowe, 1931) - Krakatau	
* ''[Pycnaxis lamellaris](/source/Pycnaxis_lamellaris)'' (Tang & Li, 2010) - China
* ''[Pycnaxis nigrostriata](/source/Pycnaxis_nigrostriata)'' (Simon, 1886) - Vietnam
* ''[Pycnaxis onoi](/source/Pycnaxis_onoi)'' (Zhang, Zhu & Tso, 2006) - Taiwan
* ''[Pycnaxis truciformis](/source/Pycnaxis_truciformis)'' (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) - China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
* ''[Pycnaxis tumida](/source/Pycnaxis_tumida)'' (Tang & Li, 2010) - China

==References==
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Category:Thomisidae genera
Category:Spiders of Asia
Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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