Costarina penshurst, 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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1206/3794.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5459268
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F387E9-FFCC-FFA3-FEE9-FCC5FE4FFAA6
treatment provided by	Carolina (2021-08-29 14:59:52, last updated by Plazi 2023-11-05 15:31:41)
scientific name	Costarina penshurst
status	sp. nov.

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Costarina penshurst View in CoL , new species ( Figures 366–372 View FIGURES 359–372. 359–365 )

TYPES: Male holotype and male paratype from leaf litter taken in a humid forest with cacao at Penshurst, 10 km north of Cahuita, Limón, Costa Rica (Apr. 13–15, 1983; D. Ubick), deposited in CAS (PBI_OON 51259) .

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. nara (cf. figs. 177–187), C. pity (cf. figs. 373–383), and C. mooreorum (cf. figs. 395–405) but have a distinctively widened tip on the proximal embolar prong (figs. 367–372).

MALE (PBI_OON 51259, figs. 366–372): Total length 2.04. Both processes on endite relatively long, narrow, with medially directed tips. Femora: I r1-1-0; II p0-0-1; metatarsus I v2-2-2. Embolus proximal prong distally widened; distal prong with dorsally projecting lobe on distal edge (N = 2).

FEMALE: Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION: Limón.

Figures

FIGURES 359–372. 359–365. Costarina veragua, new species, male. 366–372. C. penshurst, new species, male. 359, 366. Sternum, ventral view. 360, 367. Left palp, prolateral view. 361, 368. Same, ventral view. 362, 369. Same, retrolateral view. 363, 370. Left embolus, prolateral view. 364, 371. Same, ventral view. 365, 372. Same, retrolateral view.