Thyene roeweri Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024, sp. nov.

Thyene roeweri sp. nov. Fig. 54 Diagnosis. This species resembles Thyene mutica (Simon, 1902) slightly, but can be recognized by the tibial apophysis, which is longer and has a serrated tip, while it is shorter and pointed in T. mutica. Thyene roeweri sp. nov. also has a more rounded carapace and slightly different abdominal pattern (compare Fig. 54A with fig. 29 in Azarkina & Foord 2013). Female unknown. Etymology. This species in named after the famous German arachnologist, Carl Friedrich Roewer, who collected many spiders in the Tete Province of Mozambique. Type material. Holotype: ♂, MOZAMBIQUE: Tete: IV.1947, leg. C.F. Roewer, 1♂ (SMF 9926). Description. Male: Measurements: Cephalothorax: length 3.3, width 2.9, height 1.4. Eye field: length 1.3, anterior and posterior width 1.8. Abdomen: length 4.0, width 2.1. General appearance in Fig. 54A. Carapace rounded, reddish-brown, blackish towards margins, eyes surrounded by black rings, part of eye field forming lighter area formed by translucent guanine crystals. Few white hairs at fovea and laterally from eye field, long brown bristles near anterior rows of eyes. Clypeus blackish, sternum brown, labium and endites dark brown, with white tips. Chelicerae dark brown, unidentate. Abdomen ovoid, slightly elongated, with wide dirty yellow median streak, laterally blackish-brown, with four pairs of small rounded lighter patches in posterior half (Fig. 54A). Some long colourless hairs at anterior abdominal margin. Venter brown, with four lines formed by light dots. Spinnerets brownish. Legs light brown, basal two-thirds of femora, patellae and distal ends of tibiae blackish. Leg hairs and spines brown. Palp brown, bulb rounded with distal process, embolus encircling bulb 1.5 times, retrolateral margin of cymbium with some spike-like bristles (Fig. 54B, C). Tibial apophysis with serrated tip (Fig. 54D). Distribution. Only known from the Tete Province in Mozambique.