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Pycnacantha

Pycnacantha

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

Species

As of April 2019 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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Pycnacantha: Brief Summary

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Pycnacantha is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by John Blackwall in 1865.

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