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Costarina cerere Platnick & Berniker & Víquez 2014, new species

Description

Costarina cerere, new species (Figures 406–416)

TYPE: Male holotype taken on the Espavel trail in the Reserva Biológica Hitoy Cerere, Limón, Costa Rica (Mar. 31, 1998; E. Rojas), deposited in INBIO (PBI_OON 29777).

DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. selva (cf. figs. 122–132) but have one short and two long processes on the distal embolar prong (figs. 406–411); females resemble those of C. viejo (cf. figs. 133–143) and C. carrillo (cf. figs. 210–220) in having fully fused ventral scuta and a pair of round sclerotizations at the sides of the genital atrium, but have shorter apodemes and a narrower tip on the anterior genitalic process (figs. 413–416).

MALE (PBI_OON 29777, figs. 406–412): Total length 2.06. Both processes on endite with long, strong, medially directed tips. Femur II p0-0-1, r0-1-0; metatarsus I v2-2-2. Embolus proximal prong very long, strongly tapering to tip; distal prong with one short and two long processes (N = 3).

FEMALE (PBI_OON 29814, figs. 413–416): Total length 2.20. Leg II missing, leg I spination typical. Genital atrium with sclerotizations along lateral margins (N = 1).

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 69, DOI: 10.1206/3794.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5365505

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
INBIO
Event date
1998-03-31
Family
Oonopidae
Genus
Costarina
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Araneae
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Platnick & Berniker & Víquez
Species
cerere
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1998-03-31
Taxonomic concept label
Costarina cerere Platnick, Berniker & Víquez, 2014