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.

Figures

FIGURES 122–132. Costarina selva, new species, male (122–127) and female (128–132). 122. Left palp, prolateral view. 123. Same, ventral view. 124. Same, retrolateral view. 125. Left embolus, prolateral view. 126. Same, ventral view. 127. Same, retrolateral view. 128. Sternum, ventral view. 129. Abdomen, lateral view. 130. Same, ventral view. 131. Digested female genitalia, ventral view. 132. Same, dorsal view.