Costarina chiles, 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 : 7

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/3794.1

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F387E9-FF89-FFE6-FE12-FD96FE3EFBD9

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scientific name

Costarina chiles
status

sp. nov.

Costarina chiles View in CoL , new species ( Figures 89–99 View FIGURES 89–99 )

TYPES: Male holotype and female allotype from mini-Winkler sample taken at an elevation of 100 m at Finca San Luis, Los Chiles , Alajuela, Costa Rica (Feb. 8, 2009; M. Solis, B. Hernández), deposited in INBIO (96607, PBI_OON 1680) .

DIAGNOSIS: Males have a greatly widened proximal embolar prong (figs. 89–94); females have fully fused ventral scuta and a short, distally widened anterior genitalic process (figs. 96–99).

MALE (PBI_OON 1680, figs. 89–94): Total length 1.65. Endite ventral process long, narrow, heavily sclerotized, tip nearly touching tip of long, narrow dorsal process in clawlike formation. Femur I r0-1-1; tibiae I, II v4-4-0; metatarsus II v2-2-0. Embolus distal prong narrow, arched; proximal prong greatly widened (N = 2).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 1680, figs. 95–99): Total length 1.85. Metatarsus I v2-2- 1p. Genital atrium moderately long, very wide, anterior and posterior margins rebordered (N = 3).

DISTRIBUTION: Alajuela.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Costarina

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