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
0003-0082
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Costarina osa
,
new species
(
Figures 549–559
)
TYPE:
Male
holotype
from lowland forest litter taken at an elevation of
250 m
at
Cerro Helado
,
17 km
northeast of
Rincón
,
Península
de Osa
,
8°45′30″N
,
83°25′00″W
,
Puntarenas
,
Costa Rica
(
June 21, 1997
;
R. Anderson
), deposited in
INBIO
(PBI_OON 29776)
.
DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of
C. nara
(cf. figs. 177–187), but have a broader, distally bent tip on the distal embolar prong (figs. 549–554); females have fully fused ventral scuta, a tiny genital atrium, and heavily sclerotized apodemes (figs. 556–559).
MALE (PBI_OON 29776, figs. 549–554): Total length 1.83. Both processes on endite elongated, dorsal process directed anteriorly. Femur I r0-1-0. Embolus proximal prong with retrolaterally directed knob at base; distal prong sharply bent distally (
N =
1).
FEMALE (PBI_OON 51307, figs. 555–559): Total length 2.21. Spination typical. Genital atrium oval, filled with protruding sclerotization, anterior, posterior margins both rebordered (
N =
4).
DISTRIBUTION: Southern
Puntarenas
(known only from the Osa Peninsula).