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 rafael
,
new species
(
Figures 144–154
)
TYPE: Male
holotype
taken from leaf litter near a stream at an elevation of
5600 feet
at a site
3.2 km
north of the junctions of
Routes
126(9) and 140, and
0.3 km
east on the road to
San Rafael
,
Heredia
,
Costa Rica
(
Mar. 18, 1991
;
L. Herman
), deposited in
AMNH
(PBI_OON 85)
.
DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of
C. san
(cf. figs. 268–278) in having a short proximal embolar prong that parallels the much larger, squared distal prong, but the proximal prong is narrower (figs. 144–149); females have a pair of lateral extensions on the anterior margin of the genital atrium (fig. 153).
MALE (PBI_OON 51214, figs. 144–149): Total length 2.01. Endite ventral process wide, short; dorsal process narrow, long. Femora: I r0-1-1; II p0-0-1. Embolus distal prong squared, prolateral portion translucent; proximal prong short, narrow (
N =
9).
FEMALE (PBI_OON 51214, figs. 150–154): Total length 2.23. Spination typical. Genital atrium wide, with sinuous posterior margin, anterior margin continued anteriorly as conspicuous sclerotized band (
N =
10).
DISTRIBUTION:
Heredia, Cartago
, and northern
Puntarenas
.