Rhene ugandensis Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024, sp. nov.

Rhene ugandensis sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 754D97F8-761B-4634-AA32-3B690520C6B7 Fig. 80 Diagnosis The species is similar to Rhene timidus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 from South Africa; however, it differs in having longer copulatory ducts and another form of verges surrounding the copulatory openings (cf. Fig. 80C with Wesołowska & Haddad 2013: fig. 150). Etymology This species is named after the country in which the type locality lies. Material examined Holotype UGANDA • ♀; Kokumongole; 1°54′ N, 34°37′ E; 23 May. 1948; T. Anderson leg.; MEU. Description Male Unknown. Female General appearance as in Fig. 80A, shape of body typical for members of the genus, flat and robust MEASUREMENTS. Cephalothorax length 1.9, width 2.0, height 0.9. Eye field length 1.5, anterior width 1.2, posterior width 2.0. Abdomen length 4.3, width 2.7. CARAPACE. Greatly broadened, with large trapezoid eye field, brown, clothed in dense whitish hairs and sparse brown bristles, eyes with black rings, thin streak of white hairs above first eye row. Clypeus very low, dark brown. Chelicerae unidentati; labium, endites and sternum brown. ABDOMEN. Separated in the type specimen. Bulging, unicoloured light grey (possibly bleached), with three pairs of sigilla, some light hairs and sparse long brown bristles on dorsal surface. Venter slightly darker, spinnerets light brown. LEGS. Brown, first pair stouter and darker than other legs, long dense black hairs cover ventral surface of tibiae; tibiae I short, with single short prolateral spine; metatarsi I very short, with two pairs of ventral spines. Legs bearing white and brown hairs. EPIGYNE. As in Fig. 80B, its posterior borderline with notch. Copulatory openings surrounded by sclerotized lips; copulatory ducts long, uniformly wide along entire length, forming loops, with accessory glands connected to copulatory ducts at their inlet (Fig. 80C).