Costarina selva, Platnick & Berniker & Víquez, 2014

Platnick, Norman I., Berniker, Lily & Víquez, Carlos, 2014, The Goblin Spider Genus Costarina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 2: the Costa Rican fauna, American Museum Novitates 2014 (3794), pp. 1-76 : 8

Costarina selva , new species ( Figures 122–132)

TYPES: Male holotype, female allotype, and male paratype taken at an elevation of 50–150 m in the Estación Biológica La Selva, 10°26′N, 84°01′W, Heredia, Costa Rica (June 18, 1999), deposited in INBIO (PBI_ OON 29785 ) .

DIAGNOSIS: Males have a distinctive embolus, with a bifid-appearing proximal prong and a trifid distal prong (figs. 122–127); females have fully fused ventral scuta and a rectangular, medially situated, posterior extension of the posterior genitalic elements (figs. 129–132).

MALE (PBI_ OON 29785 , figs. 122–127): Total length 1.81. Both processes of endite relatively long, narrow. Femur I r0-1-1; tibia II v4-4-0. Embolus distal prong long, narrow, trifid; proximal prong appearing bifid due to fused basal spur (N = 21).

FEMALE (PBI_ OON 29785 , figs. 128–132): Total length 1.97. Spination typical. Genital atrium short, rectangular, with rebordered lateral margins (N = 15).

DISTRIBUTION: Heredia.