Costarina elena, 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 : 6

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/3794.1
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scientific name	Costarina elena
status	new species

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Costarina elena , new species ( Figures 56–66)

TYPE: Male holotype from cloud-forest litter taken at an elevation of 1650 m in the Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve , 10°20′42″N, 84°47′53″W, Santa Elena, Guanacaste, Costa Rica (June 11, 2001; R. Anderson), deposited in AMNH (PBI_ OON 29360 View Materials ) GoogleMaps .

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. carrillo (cf. figs. 210–220) in having an enlarged, distally flared distal embolar prong with a long, narrow basal extension and a basally widened proximal embolar prong, but have a sharper tip on the distal prong (figs. 56–61); females have a short, wide genital atrium with a rebordered anterior margin (figs. 65, 66).

MALE (PBI_ OON 29360 View Materials , figs. 56–61): Total length 2.40. Endite ventral process short, wide; dorsal process longer, narrow. Femur I r1-1-0; metatarsus II v2-2-0. Embolus distal prong enlarged, with invaginated anterior margin; proximal prong long, sinuous, gradually tapered (N = 18).

FEMALE (PBI_ OON 29359 View Materials , figs. 62–66): Total length 2.31. Femur II r1-1-0; metatarsus I v2-2- 1p. Genital atrium very short, wide, with sinuous posterior margin (N = 6).

DISTRIBUTION: Guanacaste and northern Puntarenas.