Costarina hitoy, 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 : 68-69

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https://doi.org/10.1206/3794.1

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scientific name

Costarina hitoy
status

new species

Costarina hitoy , new species ( Figures 384–394 View FIGURES 384–394 )

TYPES: Male holotype from wet litter taken at an elevation of 500 m in the Reserva Biológica Hitoy Cerere , 9°40′N, 83°02′W, Limón, Costa Rica (Aug. 30, 1985; J. Longino), deposited in FMNH (56546, PBI_ OON 10764 View Materials ) GoogleMaps .

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. penshurst (cf. figs. 366–372) but have a more sharply pointed distal embolar prong and a distally narrowed proximal prong (figs. 384–389); females have fully fused ventral scuta and resemble those of C. rafael (cf. figs. 144–154), but have a larger genital atrium and differently shaped posterior genitalic elements (figs. 391–394).

MALE (PBI_ OON 10764 View Materials , figs. 384–389): Total length 2.08. Endite ventral process sharply pointed; dorsal process distally long, narrow, tip directed medially. Femora: I r1-1-0; II p0-0-2. Embolus with both prongs large, expanded distally, distal prong with prolaterally directed dorsal projection behind tip (N = 13).

FEMALE (PBI_ OON 49599 View Materials , figs. 390–394): Total length 1.95. Spination typical. Genital atrium relatively large, posterior margin with triangular, anteriorly directed projection at midline (N = 4).

DISTRIBUTION: Limón.

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FIGURES 384–394. Costarina hitoy, new species, male (384–389) and female (390–394). 384. Left palp, prolateral view. 385. Same, ventral view. 386. Same, retrolateral view. 387. Left embolus, prolateral view. 388. Same, ventral view. 389. Same, retrolateral view. 390. Sternum, ventral view. 391. Abdomen, lateral view. 392. Same, ventral view. 393. Digested female genitalia, ventral view. 394. Same, dorsal view.

FMNH

Field Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Oonopidae

Genus

Costarina