Pycnacantha
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassArachnida
- OrderAraneae
- FamilyAraneidae
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Pycnacantha is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by John Blackwall in 1865.
==Species== , this genus includes four species: 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)
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Malawi
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