Family: Araneidae Clerck, 1757 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0102] Detail
In synonymy:
Daturina Thorell, 1877 = Pycnacantha Blackwall, 1865 (Simon, 1895a: 894)
Gen. Pycnacantha Blackwall, 1865 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:01555] Detail
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 | f | Namibia     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017023]
Pycnacantha dinteri Meise, 1932: 75, f. 2-3 (Df).
Pycnacantha echinotes Meise, 1932 | f | Cameroon     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017024]
Pycnacantha echinotes Meise, 1932: 77, f. 4 (Df).
Pycnacantha fuscosa Simon, 1903 | m | Madagascar     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017025]
Pycnacantha furcosa Simon, 1903a: 1005, f. 1113-1114 (m, lapsus).
Pycnacantha fuscosa Simon, 1903b: 139 (Dm).
Pycnacantha tribulus (Fabricius, 1781) * | f | Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa     [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:017026]
Aranea tribulus Fabricius, 1781: 547 (Df).
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).
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