Costarina penshurst, 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 : 68

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/3794.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5459268

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F387E9-FFCC-FFA3-FEE9-FCC5FE4FFAA6

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Carolina

scientific name

Costarina penshurst
status

sp. nov.

Costarina penshurst View in CoL , new species ( Figures 366–372 View FIGURES 359–372. 359–365 )

TYPES: Male holotype and male paratype from leaf litter taken in a humid forest with cacao at Penshurst, 10 km north of Cahuita, Limón, Costa Rica (Apr. 13–15, 1983; D. Ubick), deposited in CAS (PBI_OON 51259) .

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. nara (cf. figs. 177–187), C. pity (cf. figs. 373–383), and C. mooreorum (cf. figs. 395–405) but have a distinctively widened tip on the proximal embolar prong (figs. 367–372).

MALE (PBI_OON 51259, figs. 366–372): Total length 2.04. Both processes on endite relatively long, narrow, with medially directed tips. Femora: I r1-1-0; II p0-0-1; metatarsus I v2-2-2. Embolus proximal prong distally widened; distal prong with dorsally projecting lobe on distal edge (N = 2).

FEMALE: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Limón.

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Costarina

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