World Spider Catalog

Araneidae Clerck, 1757

Family | ACCEPTED

In synonymy:

Daturina Thorell, 1877 = Pycnacantha Blackwall, 1865 (Simon, 1895a: 894)

Gen. Pycnacantha Blackwall, 1865 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01555

type Pycnacantha meadei Blackwall, 1865; gender feminine; syn. of Pycnacantha tribulus (Fabricius, 1781)

N.B.: considered a senior synonym of Daturina Thorell, 1877a: 302 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05970] (type D. hystrix Thorell, 1877 = Pycnacantha tribulus (Fabricius, 1781)) by Simon, 1895a: 894.

In synonymy:

Pycnacantha hystrix (Thorell, 1877, T from Daturina) = Pycnacantha tribulus (Fabricius, 1781) (Simon, 1895a: 892)

Pycnacantha meadei Blackwall, 1865 = Pycnacantha tribulus (Fabricius, 1781) (Simon, 1895a: 892)

Pycnacantha dinteri Meise, 1932 | | Namibia urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017023

Pycnacantha dinteri Meise, 1932: 75, f. 2-3 (Df) Original description

Pycnacantha echinotes Meise, 1932 | | Cameroon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017024

Pycnacantha echinotes Meise, 1932: 77, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Pycnacantha fuscosa Simon, 1903 | | Madagascar urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017025

Pycnacantha furcosa Simon, 1903a: 1005, f. 1113-1114 (m, lapsus)

Pycnacantha fuscosa Simon, 1903b: 139 (Dm) Original description

Pycnacantha tribulus (Fabricius, 1781) | | Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017026 TYPE SPECIES

Aranea tribulus Fabricius, 1781: 547 (Df) Original description

Pycnacantha meadii Blackwall, 1865b: 351 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058009]

Daturina hystrix Thorell, 1877a: 302, unnumbered f. (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058010]

Pycnacantha tribulus Simon, 1895a: 892, 894, f. 958 (S of Daturina hystrix and Pycnacantha meadei)

Pycnacantha tribulus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2022f: 45, p. 44: 3 f., p. 45: 3 f., p. 46: 4 f. (f habitus)

Pycnacantha tribulus Dippenaar-Schoeman, Jones & Webb, 2024: 19, f. 1-22 (f)