Costarina cruces, 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 : 72

Costarina cruces , new species ( Figures 483–493)

TYPES: Male holotype and female allotype from wet cloud-forest litter taken at an elevation of 1400 m at a site 5 km southwest of the Estación Biológica Las Cruces , 8°47′13″N, 82°59′13″W, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (June 22, 1998; R. Anderson), deposited in AMNH (PBI_ OON 51286 ) .

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. ubicki (cf. figs. 494–504) in having the distal embolar prong bent at a 90° angle, but lack a triangular projection on the distal edge of that prong (figs. 483–488); females also resemble those of C. ubicki but have posteriorly narrower posterior genitalic elements (figs. 492, 493).

MALE (PBI_ OON 51286 , figs. 483–488): Total length 2.46. Endite ventral process long, with curved tip; dorsal process with angular, medially directed projection. Femur II p0-0-1; tibia I v4-4-2; metatarsus I v2-2-2. Embolus proximal prong short, narrow; distal prong with retrolaterally directed projection (N = 3).

FEMALE (PBI_ OON 49244 , figs. 489–493): Total length 2.60. Spination typical. Genital atrium short, wide, filled with protuberant sclerotization, anterior genitalic process visible through cuticle as very narrow sclerite (N = 5).

DISTRIBUTION: Southeastern Puntarenas.