Pycnacantha

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

Pycnacantha
1877 drawing of P. tribulus
female P. tribulus
Scientific classification
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

Species

As of September 2025^[update], this genus includes four species:^[1]

• Pycnacantha dinteri Meise, 1932 – Namibia
• Pycnacantha echinotes Meise, 1932 – Cameroon
• Pycnacantha fuscosa Simon, 1903 – Madagascar
• Pycnacantha tribulus (Fabricius, 1781) – Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa (type species)