Costarina pity, 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 : 68

Costarina pity , new species ( Figures 373–383)

TYPES: Male holotype, female allotype, male paratype, and female paratype from a mini- Winkler sample taken on the El Pity path in the Veragua Rainforest , Limón, Costa Rica (Mar. 19, 2009; M. Solis), deposited in INBIO (PBI_ OON 51258 ) .

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. nara (cf. figs. 177–187) and C. mooreorum (cf. figs. 395–405) but have a wider tip on the distal embolar prong (figs. 373–378); females have the posterior margin of the genital atrium medially enlarged (figs. 382, 383), and the epigastric furrow enlarged lateral to the spiracles (fig. 381).

MALE (PBI_ OON 51258 , figs. 373–378): Total length 2.08. Both processes on endite relatively long, narrow, forming pincerlike structure. Femora: I r1-1-0; II p0-0-1; metatarsus I v2-2-2. Embolus proximal prong long, narrow, distally sinuous; distal prong bifid, with long, straight, narrow, basal protrusion (N = 2).

FEMALE (PBI_ OON 51258 , figs. 379–383): Total length 2.33. Spination typical. Genital atrium wide, posterior margin produced anteriorly at midline (N = 3).

DISTRIBUTION: Limón.