Costarina elena, 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 : 6

Costarina elena , new species ( Figures 56–66 )

TYPE: Male holotype from cloud-forest litter taken at an elevation of 1650 m in the Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve , 10°20′42″N, 84°47′53″W, Santa Elena, Guanacaste, Costa Rica (June 11, 2001; R. Anderson), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 29360) .

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. carrillo (cf. figs. 210–220) in having an enlarged, distally flared distal embolar prong with a long, narrow basal extension and a basally widened proximal embolar prong, but have a sharper tip on the distal prong (figs. 56–61); females have a short, wide genital atrium with a rebordered anterior margin (figs. 65, 66).

MALE (PBI_OON 29360, figs. 56–61): Total length 2.40. Endite ventral process short, wide; dorsal process longer, narrow. Femur I r1-1-0; metatarsus II v2-2-0. Embolus distal prong enlarged, with invaginated anterior margin; proximal prong long, sinuous, gradually tapered (N = 18).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 29359, figs. 62–66): Total length 2.31. Femur II r1-1-0; metatarsus I v2-2- 1p. Genital atrium very short, wide, with sinuous posterior margin (N = 6).

DISTRIBUTION: Guanacaste and northern Puntarenas.

Figures

FIGURES 56–66. Costarina elena, new species, male (56–61) and female (62–66). 56. Left palp, prolateral view. 57. Same, ventral view. 58. Same, retrolateral view. 59. Left embolus, prolateral view. 60. Same, ventral view. 61. Same, retrolateral view. 62. Sternum, ventral view. 63. Abdomen, lateral view. 64. Same, ventral view. 65. Digested female genitalia, ventral view. 66. Same, dorsal view.