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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http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1206/3794.1
journal article
10.1206/3794.1
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Costarina concinna
(Chickering)
(
Figures 417–427
)
Dysderina concinna
Chickering, 1968: 9
, figs. 13–19 (male
holotype
from
Volcán
,
Chiriquí
,
Panama
, in MCZ; examined).
Dysderina potena
Chickering, 1968: 24
, figs. 50–52 (female
holotype
from
Volcán
,
Chiriquí
,
Panama
, in MCZ; examined). NEW SYNONYMY.
Costarina concinna
:
Platnick and Dupérré, 2011: 50
.
Costarina potena
:
Platnick and Dupérré, 2011: 50
.
DIAGNOSIS: T his appears to be a southern vicariant of the widespread species
C. plena
(cf. figs. 1–11); the two species have been collected together only in the Reserva Biológica
Hitoy Cerere
in
Limón
. Males have a much larger, wider, more rectangular proximal embolar prong (figs. 417–422) and females have a larger, less triangular genital atrium (figs. 426, 427).
MALE (PBI_OON 29753, figs. 417–422): Total length 2.22. Endite ventral process very short, tip heavily sclerotized; dorsal process long, narrow, tip widely separated from tip of ventral process. Femur II p0-0-2, r1-1-0; metatarsus I v2-2-2. Embolus proximal prong wide, flag shaped; distal prong long, bent only at apex (
N =
2).
FEMALE (PBI_OON 29815, figs. 423–427): Total length 2.38. Spination typical. Genital atrium relatively large, almost completely filled with protuberant sclerotization, anterior margin rebordered (
N =
4).
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Limón, southeastern Puntarenas, and northern
Panama
.
SYNONYMY: Chickering collected at Volcán,
Chiriquí
,
Panama
, from
Aug. 9–14, 1950
, and described five species of
Dysderina
based on specimens he captured there: three based exclusively on males, and two based exclusively on females. He recognized that the female
holotype
of
D. potena
“appears to be closely related to
D. plena
,” so it is surprising that he did not match that specimen with the males of
D. concinna
, which closely resemble the males of
C. plena
. Both sexes have since been taken together in
Panama
.