Trechona

Trechona is a genus of South American curtain web spiders that was first described by C. L. Koch in 1850. The venom of at least one species is considered potentially dangerous to humans.

== Description == Spiders of this genus grow up to 5 cm in length and are brownish to blackened, with a zebra coloring on the abdomen, with clear transverse bands. The lyre is composed of rigid bristles of different sizes. They are spiders of fossorial and nocturnal habits, found in tunnels dug in ravines and on top of logs or rocks in the forest. This species is very common in the Atlantic forest.