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 meridina
(Chickering)
(
Figures 221–231
)
Dysderina meridina
Chickering, 1968: 20
, figs. 40, 41 (male
holotype
from
San José
,
Costa Rica
, in AMNH; examined).
Costarina meridina:
Platnick and Dupérré, 2011: 50
.
DIAGNOSIS: T his appears to be a southern vicariant of
C. murphyorum
(cf. figs. 78–88); males differ in having all parts of the embolus narrower (figs. 221–226), females in having straight posterolateral corners of the genital atrium and narrower paramedian lobes on the posterior genitalic elements (figs. 230, 231).
MALE (PBI_OON 93, figs. 221–226): Total length 1.90. Endite ventral process produced ventrally, heavily sclerotized distally; dorsal process strongly arched. Femur II p0-0-2. Embolus distal prong greatly elongated, with translucent flange at about two-thirds its length; proximal prong distally arched (
N =
16).
FEMALE (PBI_OON 93, figs. 227–231): Total length 2.20. Spination typical. Genital atrium short, wide, including transverse sclerotization (
N =
21).
DISTRIBUTION: Abundant in
San José
and adjacent parts of
Heredia and Cartago
.