Costarina cuerici, 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 : 13-14

Costarina cuerici , new species ( Figures 279–289)

TYPES: Male holotype and female allotype from leaf litter taken at an elevation of 2640– 2700 m around the Estación Biológica de Cuerici, 4.6 km east of Villa Mills, San José , Costa Rica (Nov. 26, 1995; A. Picado), deposited in INBIO (45775, PBI_ OON 51240 ) .

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. junio (cf. figs. 290–300) in having a distally twisted distal embolar prong, but have the proximal prong broadly fused to the distal prong at its base (figs. 279–284); females have distinctively arched posterior genitalic elements (figs. 288, 289).

MALE (PBI_ OON 51240 , figs. 279–284): Total length 2.40. Endite ventral process with arched ventral surface; dorsal process narrow. Femur II p0-0-1; tibia II v4-4-2. Embolus proximal prong tiny, spur shaped; distal prong huge, with translucent prolateral flange (N = 6).

FEMALE (PBI_ OON 51240 , figs. 285–289): Total length 2.54. Tibia II v4-4-2. Genital atrium containing distinctive triangular sclerotization, posterior genitalic elements strongly arched (N = 4). DISTRIBUTION: San José and Cartago .