The Goblin Spider Genus Costarina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 2: the Costa Rican fauna
Author
Platnick, Norman I.
Author
Berniker, Lily
Author
Víquez, Carlos
text
American Museum Novitates
2014
2014-01-06
2014
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1
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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3794.1
journal article
10.1206/3794.1
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Costarina parapalmar
,
new species
(
Figures 560–566
)
TYPE:
Male
holotype
taken by sifting leaf litter at an elevation of
100 m
in a tropical moist forest
8 km
west of
Puerto Jiménez
,
Puntarenas
,
Costa Rica
(
May 19, 1987
;
D. Ubick
), deposited in
CAS
(PBI_OON 51297)
.
ETYMOLOGY: T he specific name refers to the similarities to
C. palmar
.
DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of
C. palmar
(cf. figs. 505–515) in having a wide, arched distal embolar prong, but differ in having a bifid tip on that prong (figs. 561–566).
MALE (PBI_OON 51297, figs. 560–566): Total length 1.76. Both processes on endite long, narrow. Femur I r0-1-0. Embolus proximal prong long, gradually tapering to tip; distal prong arched, with incised tip (
N =
6).
FEMALE: Unknown.
DISTRIBUTION: Southern
Puntarenas
, including the Osa Peninsula.