Biology:Pycnacantha

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Pycnacantha
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Pycnacantha
Blackwall, 1865[1]
Type species
P. tribulus
(Fabricius, 1781)
Species

4, see text

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

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Pycnacantha Blackwall, 1865. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/397. Retrieved 2019-05-15. 
  2. 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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q3017259 entry