Costarina parapalmar, 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 : 74-75

Costarina parapalmar , new species ( Figures 560–566 )

TYPE: Male holotype taken by sifting leaf litter at an elevation of 100 m in a tropical moist forest 8 km west of Puerto Jiménez, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (May 19, 1987; D. Ubick), deposited in CAS (PBI_OON 51297) .

ETYMOLOGY: T he specific name refers to the similarities to C. palmar .

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. palmar (cf. figs. 505–515) in having a wide, arched distal embolar prong, but differ in having a bifid tip on that prong (figs. 561–566).

MALE (PBI_OON 51297, figs. 560–566): Total length 1.76. Both processes on endite long, narrow. Femur I r0-1-0. Embolus proximal prong long, gradually tapering to tip; distal prong arched, with incised tip (N = 6).

FEMALE: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Puntarenas, including the Osa Peninsula.

Figures

FIGURES 560–571. 560–566. Costarina parapalmar, new species, male. 567–571. C. isidro, new species, female. 560. Sternum, ventral view. 561. Left palp, prolateral view. 562. Same, ventral view. 563. Same, retrolateral view. 564. Left embolus, prolateral view. 565. Same, ventral view. 566. Same, retrolateral view. 567. Sternum, ventral view. 568. Abdomen, lateral view. 569. Same, ventral view. 570. Digested female genitalia, ventral view. 571. Same, dorsal view.