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Costarina penshurst Platnick & Berniker & Víquez 2014, new species

Description

Costarina penshurst, new species (Figures 366–372)

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.

Notes

Published as part of Platnick, Norman I., Berniker, Lily & Víquez, Carlos, 2014, The Goblin Spider Genus Costarina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 2: the Costa Rican fauna, pp. 1-76 in American Museum Novitates 2014 (3794) on page 68, DOI: 10.1206/3794.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5365505

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CAS
Event date
1983-04-13
Family
Oonopidae
Genus
Costarina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Platnick & Berniker & Víquez
Species
penshurst
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1983-04-13/15
Taxonomic concept label
Costarina penshurst Platnick, Berniker & Víquez, 2014