Costarina junio, 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 : 14

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/3794.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F387E9-FF82-FFED-FE06-FCFEFD39FACC

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Carolina

scientific name

Costarina junio
status

sp. nov.

Costarina junio View in CoL , new species ( Figures 290–300 View FIGURES 290–300 )

TYPES: Male holotype and male paratype from wet cloud-forest litter taken an at elevation of 2900 m at a site near km 71 of the Inter-American Highway near Tres de Junio, 9°37′44″N, 83°50′13″W, on the San José / Cartago border, Costa Rica (June 23, 1999; R. Anderson), deposited in AMNH (PBI_OON 51242) GoogleMaps .

DIAGNOSIS: Males and females have not been taken together, and are only tentatively matched here. Males resemble those of species like C. poas (cf. figs. 111–121), C. rafael (cf. figs. 144–154), and C. cuerici (cf. figs. 279–289) in having greatly enlarged, flange-shaped distal embolar prongs, but have a longer tip on the proximal embolar prong (figs. 290–295); females resemble those of C. rafael but have fully fused ventral scuta (figs. 297–300).

MALE (PBI_OON 51242, figs. 290–295): Total length 2.43. Both processes on endite with narrow, curved, heavily sclerotized tips. Femur II p0-0-1. Embolus proximal prong long, narrow; distal prong enlarged, with narrow, translucent flange on prolateral side (N = 4).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 37016, figs. 296–300): Total length 2.35. Spination typical. Posterior margin of genital atrium recurved, apodemes enlarged, triangular (N = 1).

DISTRIBUTION: San José and adjacent Cartago.

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Costarina

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