Afrotrichona is a monotypic genus of east African sheet weavers containing the single species, Afrotrichona mahnerti. It was first described by A. V. Tanasevitch in 2020,[2] and it has only been found in Kenya.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Linyphiidae |
| Genus: | Afrotrichona Tanasevitch, 2020[1] |
| Species: | A. mahnerti
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| Binomial name | |
| Afrotrichona mahnerti Tanasevitch, 2020[1]
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See also
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edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Afrotrichona Tanasevitch, 2020". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2021. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2021-12-02.
- ^ Tanasevitch, A. V. (2020). "Linyphiid spiders collected by V. Mahnert in Kenya, with the description of a new genus and two new species (Arachnida: Araneae)". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 127 (2): 349–360. doi:10.35929/RSZ.0024. S2CID 225949156.