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

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

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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 View Materials ) .

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 View Materials , 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.