title: Pycnacantha
text: # Pycnacantha
  
  Pycnacantha is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by John Blackwall in 1865.
  
  ## Species
  
  As of April 2019 it contains four species:
  
  * Pycnacantha dinteri Meise, 1932 – Namibia
  * Pycnacantha echinotes Meise, 1932 – Cameroon
  * Pycnacantha fuscosa Simon, 1903 – Madagascar
  * Pycnacantha tribulus (Fabricius, 1781) (type) – Central, South Africa
  