Pycnacantha

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Pycnacantha

| authority = Blackwall, 1865

| type_species = P. tribulus

| type_species_authority = (Fabricius, 1781)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 4, see text

}}

Pycnacantha is a genus of African orb-weaver spiders first described by John Blackwall in 1865.{{cite journal| last=Blackwall| first=J.| year=1865| title=Descriptions of recently discovered species and characters of a new genus, of Araneida from the East of Central Africa.| journal=Annals and Magazine of Natural History| pages=336–352| volume=16| issue=3| doi=10.1080/00222936508679441}}