Rhene ugandensis, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024

Wiśniewski, Konrad & Wesołowska, Wanda, 2024, Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda - revised list, new species and distributional data, European Journal of Taxonomy 952, pp. 1-171 : 122-123

Rhene ugandensis sp. nov.

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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 ).

Figures

Fig. 80. Rhene ugandensis sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (MEU). A. General appearance. B. Epigyne. C. Internal structure of epigyne.