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
3794
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 murphyorum
,
new species
(
Figures 78–88
)
TYPES:
Male
holotype
, female
allotype
, and female
paratype
taken from roadside scrub at an elevation of
1500 m
at
Monteverde
,
Puntarenas
,
Costa Rica
(
Aug. 24, 1983
;
J., F. Murphy
), deposited in
AMNH
(PBI_OON 36787)
.
ETYMOLOGY: T he specific name is a patronym in honor of John and Frances Murphy, who collected the only known specimens of this species.
DIAGNOSIS: T his appears to be a northern vicariant of
C. meridina
(cf. figs. 221–231); males differ in having all parts of the embolus wider (figs. 78–83), females in having more recurved posterolateral corners of the genital atrium and wider paramedian lobes on the posterior genitalic elements (figs. 86–88).
MALE (PBI_OON 36787, figs. 78–83): Total length 1.97. Endite ventral process basally wide, distally heavily sclerotized; dorsal process long, arched. Femur II p0-0-2, r0-1-0. Embolus proximal prong arched; distal prong deeply bifid (
N =
6).
FEMALE (PBI_OON 36787, figs. 84–88): Total length 2.12. Spination typical. Genital atrium wide, posterior margin transverse, with recurved corners (
N =
3).
DISTRIBUTION: Northern
Puntarenas
.