Costarina osa Platnick & Berniker & Víquez 2014, new species
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TYPE: Male holotype from lowland forest litter taken at an elevation of 250 m at Cerro Helado, 17 km northeast of Rincón, Península de Osa, 8°45′30″N, 83°25′00″W, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (June 21, 1997; R. Anderson), deposited in INBIO (PBI_OON 29776).
DIAGNOSIS: Males resemble those of C. nara (cf. figs. 177–187), but have a broader, distally bent tip on the distal embolar prong (figs. 549–554); females have fully fused ventral scuta, a tiny genital atrium, and heavily sclerotized apodemes (figs. 556–559).
MALE (PBI_OON 29776, figs. 549–554): Total length 1.83. Both processes on endite elongated, dorsal process directed anteriorly. Femur I r0-1-0. Embolus proximal prong with retrolaterally directed knob at base; distal prong sharply bent distally (N = 1).
FEMALE (PBI_OON 51307, figs. 555–559): Total length 2.21. Spination typical. Genital atrium oval, filled with protruding sclerotization, anterior, posterior margins both rebordered (N = 4).
DISTRIBUTION: Southern Puntarenas (known only from the Osa Peninsula).
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Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5365605 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1206/3794.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5365505 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFCAFF91FF8FFFE0FF83FFE2FFF7FFA0 (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03F387E9FFC5FFAAFE13FE6EFBDDFCCC (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- INBIO
- Event date
- 1997-06-21
- Verbatim event date
- 1997-06-21
- Scientific name authorship
- Platnick & Berniker & Víquez
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Oonopidae
- Genus
- Costarina
- Species
- osa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Costarina osa Platnick, Berniker & Víquez, 2014