Costarina cerere, 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 : 69

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/3794.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5459272

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F387E9-FFCB-FFA4-FE03-FBCDFE4FF9F9

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Carolina

scientific name

Costarina cerere
status

sp. nov.

Costarina cerere View in CoL , new species ( Figures 406–416 View FIGURES 406–416 )

TYPE: Male holotype taken on the Espavel trail in the Reserva Biológica Hitoy Cerere , Limón, Costa Rica (Mar. 31, 1998; E. Rojas), deposited in INBIO (PBI_OON 29777) .

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. selva (cf. figs. 122–132) but have one short and two long processes on the distal embolar prong (figs. 406–411); females resemble those of C. viejo (cf. figs. 133–143) and C. carrillo (cf. figs. 210–220) in having fully fused ventral scuta and a pair of round sclerotizations at the sides of the genital atrium, but have shorter apodemes and a narrower tip on the anterior genitalic process (figs. 413–416).

MALE (PBI_OON 29777, figs. 406–412): Total length 2.06. Both processes on endite with long, strong, medially directed tips. Femur II p0-0-1, r0-1-0; metatarsus I v2-2-2. Embolus proximal prong very long, strongly tapering to tip; distal prong with one short and two long processes (N = 3).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 29814, figs. 413–416): Total length 2.20. Leg II missing, leg I spination typical. Genital atrium with sclerotizations along lateral margins (N = 1).

DISTRIBUTION: Limón.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Costarina

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