Costarina parabio, 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 : 73-74

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

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Costarina parabio , new species ( Figures 516–526)

TYPES: Male holotype and male paratype taken by sifting litter in a tropical moist forest at an elevation of 100 m at a site 3 km south of Palmar Norte , Puntarenas, Costa Rica (May 24, 1987; D. Ubick), deposited in CAS (PBI_ OON 49595 View Materials ) .

ETYMOLOGY: T he specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. obtina (cf. figs. 439–449), but have a narrower, more angular distal embolar prong (figs. 516–521); females have two small sclerotizations reaching to near the anterior margin of the genital atrium (figs. 525, 526).

MALE (PBI_ OON 49595 View Materials , figs. 516–521): Total length 1.77. Endite ventral process relatively short, wide; dorsal process narrow, arched. Femur I r0-1-1; tibia I v4-4-1; metatarsus I v2-2-2. Embolus proximal prong with retrolaterally directed spur; distal prong with angularly notched tip (N = 5).

FEMALE (PBI_ OON 29768 View Materials , figs. 522–526): Total length 1.98. Spination typical. Genital atrium with pair of small sclerotizations near anterior margin (N = 1).

DISTRIBUTION: Southern Puntarenas, including the Osa Peninsula.