TY - JOUR T1 - Notes on the spiders of the Virgin Islands JF - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Y1 - 1942 A1 - Bryant, Elizabeth B SP - 317 EP - 366 VL - 89 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Caribbean goblin spider genera Scaphioides and Hortoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 1 JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 2012 A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Dupérré, Nadine SP - 1 EP - 62 VL - 3751 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The goblin spider genus Scaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae) JF - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Y1 - 2010 A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Dupérré, Nadine SP - 1 EP - 156 VL - 332 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The goblin spider genus Pescennina (Araneae, Oonopidae) JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 2011 A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Dupérré, Nadine SP - 1 EP - 64 VL - 3716 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Etudes Arachnologiques. 13e Mémoire. XX. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de la famille des Dysderidae JF - Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Y1 - 1882 A1 - Simon, Eugène SP - 201 EP - 240 VL - (6) 2 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Two new fossil spider species in copal from Colombia (Araneae: Oonopidae and Dictynidae). JF - Beiträge zur Araneologie Y1 - 2004 A1 - Wunderlich, Jorg SP - 1854 EP - 1859 VL - 3 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - On the spiders of the genus Dysdera Latr. with the description of a new allied genus JF - The Zoological Journal Y1 - 1835 A1 - Templeton, R SP - 400 EP - 408 VL - 5 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The genus Oonops (Araneae, Oonopidae) in Panama and the West Indies. Part 1 JF - Psyche Y1 - 1971 A1 - Chickering, Arthur M SP - 487 EP - 512 VL - 77 IS - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The goblin spider genera Stenoonops and Australoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on related taxa JF - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Y1 - 2010 A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Dupérré, Nadine SP - 1 EP - 111 VL - 340 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Révision du genre Orchestina E.S., suive de la description de nouvelles espèces du genre Oonops et d'une étude sur les Dictynidae du genre Scotolathys JF - Annales de la Société Entomologique de France Y1 - 1916 A1 - Dalmas, R de SP - 203 EP - 258 VL - 85 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The goblin spider genus Heteroonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on Oonops JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 2009 A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Dupérré, Nadine SP - 1 EP - 72 VL - 3672 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Arachnides nouveaux d'Algérie JF - Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France Y1 - 1884 A1 - Simon, Eugène SP - 321 EP - 327 VL - 9 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 1. JF - Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova Y1 - 1890 A1 - Thorell, Tord SP - 5 EP - 421 VL - 28 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The American goblin spiders of the new genus Escaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae) JF - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Y1 - 2009 A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Dupérré, Nadine SP - 1 EP - 151 VL - 328 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The genus Scaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae) in Central America and the West Indies JF - Psyche Y1 - 1968 A1 - Chickering, Arthur M SP - 135 EP - 156 VL - 75 IS - 2 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - On Coxapopha, a new genus of the spider family Oonopidae from Panama (Araneae Haplogynae) JF - Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana Y1 - 2000 A1 - Platnick, Norman I SP - 403 EP - 410 VL - 78 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Andean goblin spiders of the new genus Scaphidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on Dysderina. JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 2011 A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Dupérré, Nadine SP - 1 EP - 51 VL - 3712 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Sur les Oonopidae (Araneae) de Cuba JF - Résultats des Expéditions Biospéologiques Cubano-Roumaines à Cuba Y1 - 1983 A1 - Dumitrescu, Margareta A1 - Georgescu, Maria SP - 65 EP - 114 VL - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Oonopidae of Panama JF - Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Y1 - 1951 A1 - Chickering, Arthur M SP - 205 EP - 245 VL - 106 IS - 5 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The genus Dysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae) in Central America and the West Indies JF - Breviora Y1 - 1968 A1 - Chickering, Arthur M SP - 1 EP - 37 VL - 296 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - On the spiders of the island of St. Vincent. Part 1 JF - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Y1 - 1892 A1 - Simon, Eugène SP - 549 EP - 575 VL - 59 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A revision of the New World goblin spider genus Cinetomorpha Simon, 1892 revalidated from Gamasomorpha Karsch, 1881 (Araneae, Oonopidae, Oonopinae) JF - Zootaxa Y1 - 2019 A1 - Ricardo Ott A1 - Bonaldo, Alexandre A1 - Brescovit, Antonio D A1 - Harvey, Mark S SP - 1 EP - 152 VL - 4641 IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Taxonomic revision of the jumping goblin spiders of the genus Orchestina Simon, 1882, in the Americas (Araneae, Oonopidae). JF - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Y1 - 2017 A1 - Izquierdo, Matías A A1 - Ramírez, Martín J SP - 1 EP - 162 AB -

The genus Orchestina Simon is distributed worldwide and is characterized by having an enlarged fourth femur with which these species are capable of jumping. The genus is also characterized by having a well-sclerotized sperm duct, a near H-shaped arrangement of the eye group, a 4-4-3-3 pattern of raised receptors on the tarsal organs of the legs I-IV, respectively, and by lacking spines on all the legs. All these characters, together with molecular evidence, support the monophyly of the genus, as well as its placement as sister group of Oonopinae. Most American species of Orchestina inhabit the forest foliage and canopy, but in unforested areas they also occur in shrubs and grasses. In this work, we revise the American representatives of Orchestina in a comprehensive context for the first time. In the past, six species were known from the Americas: five from the United States and only one from South America, described from Venezuela. After the study of the principal collections of the world and several field trips to several South American countries, we describe 85 new species and redescribe all previously known species. Matching sexes was occasionally problematic; while females are very homogeneous in somatic traits, males may have modifications on different parts of the body, making the matching very difficult. Therefore, in this review 56 of the species are described from only one sex, whereas 20 unmatched species are informally described as morphospecies, pending the discovery of conspecific sexes. Two species, O. pavesiiformis Saaristo and O. dentifera Simon, originally known from Israel and Sri Lanka, respectively, are here reported as introduced in several countries in the Americas and other continents. O. justini Saaristo described from the Seychelles is here considered a synonym of O. dentifera. One species, O. truncata Wunderlich, previously known as a subfossil spider from Colombian copal is here tentatively redescribed based on recent material from Costa Rica, Colombia, and Ecuador; the female is also described for the first time. The species list by country is as follows (numbers refer to records, independently of the locality of the type material): United States (9 species: O. utahana Chamberlin and Ivie, O. moaba Chamberlin and Ivie, O. obscura Chamberlin and Ivie, O. saltitans Banks, O. nadleri Chickering, the introduced O. pavesiiformis Saaristo, and three new species, O. quasimodo, O. kamehameha, and O. auburndalensis); Mexico (3 species: O. utahana Chamberlin and Ivie, and two new species, O. nahuatl and O. chaparrita); Guatemala (1 new species: O. guatemala); Costa Rica (3 new species: O. laselva, O. griswoldi, and O. chiriqui; and the previously known O. truncata Wunderlich); Panama (5 new species: O. chiriqui, O. labarquei, O. pan, O. campana, and O. galapagos); Jamaica (2 species, the introduced O. dentifera Simon and O. galapagos); Haiti and Dominican Republic (only the introduced O. dentifera Simon); Colombia (6 new species: O. filandia, O. zingara, O. arboleda, O. cali, O. platnicki, O. pakitza; and O. truncata Wunderlich, plus the morphospecies OMI020 and OMI038); Venezuela (7 species: O. saltabunda; and 6 new, O. venezuela, O. aragua, O. bolivar, O. maracay, O. ranchogrande, and O. neblina); Trinidad and Tobago (1 new species: O. kairi); Guyana (1 morphospecies: OMI026); Ecuador (18 new species: O. galapagos, O. fernandina, O. erwini, O. ecuatoriensis, O. sotoi, O. magna, O. shuar, O. golem, O. waorani, O. tzantza, O. predator, O. goblin, O. yanayacu, O. otonga, O. santodomingo, O. quijos, O. mayo, O. laselva, and O. truncata Wunderlich, plus the morphospecies OMI020, OMI021, OMI022, OMI023, OMI024, OMI025, OMI026, OMI027, OMI029, OMI036, and OMI038); Peru (9 new species: O. cajamarca, O. comaina, O. atocongo, O. mancocapac, O. silvae, O. madrededios, O. pakitza, O. losamigos, O. golem, and the morphospecies OMI020, OMI023, OMI026, and OMI030); Brazil (25 new species: O. cristinae, O. coari, O. moura, O. valquiria, O. aproeste, O. caxiuana, O. para, O. taruma, O. retiro, O. divisor, O. juruti, O. platnicki, O. iemanja, O. bonaldoi, O. rapaz, O. itapety, O. catarina, O. leon, O. saudade, O. sarava, O. goblin, O. sotoi, O. golem, O. waorani, O. ucumar, the introduced O. pavesiiformis Saaristo, and O. dentifera Simon, plus the morphospecies OMI021, OMI023, OMI024, OMI025, OMI026, OMI027, OMI029, OMI032, OMI033, OMI034, OMI035, OMI036, OMI037, OMI039, and OMI040); Bolivia (3 new species: O. moyuchi, O. grismadoi, and O. ucumar); Chile (12 new species: O. pandeazucar, O. caleta, O. totoralillo, O. pizarroi, O. molles, O. granizo, O. quenies, O. curico, O. cachai, O. nahuelbuta, O. jaiba, and O. osorno); and Argentina (6 new species: O. ucumar, O. andianavarroi, O. luispi, O. cristinae, O. platnicki, O. jaiba, and the introduced O. pavesiiformis Saaristo). Although the internal relationships of the genus are still not clear, we suggest some groups of species based on morphological characters and geographic distributions. Species from the western United States share the presence of a net-shaped pattern of coloration and, in some species, modifications of carapace or first legs of males. Females of this group are characterized by the presence of a thin, generally long and twisted anterior receptaculum and external pockets on the epigastric region. This group inhabits in a geographic region that remained isolated during the late Cretaceous and is still isolated by geographic and climatic conditions. Species groups in South American members were more difficult to establish, given their wide diversity. However, some species are unique in having internal pockets in female genitalia and apophyses on the male copulatory bulb. The Chilean species are probably a monophyletic group; they are separated from the rest by the combined presence of external pockets and ridges on the epigastric region of female, whereas males are very similar in the morphology of copulatory bulb, which is very simple, with long embolus and sometimes with additional spine-shaped apophysis. This group may have experienced events of isolation during and after the elevation of the Andes range. As in other members of the family the genus is interesting for the presence of secondary sexual characters in males whereas females are practically homogenous in somatic characters. However, female genital morphology is variable, which may suggest a coevolution with somatic characters in males and probably mechanical interactions. Although this work reveals the incredible diversity of this genus, many important geographic regions remain undersampled and records for some countries are entirely lacking.

VL - 410 UR - http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/6699 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Three new genera of soft-bodied goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 2015 DO - 10.1206/3824.1 A1 - Bolzern, Angelo A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Berniker, Lily SP - 1 EP - 59 AB -

Three new genera of soft-bodied, oonopine goblin spiders are established. Two specific names (Oonops tolucanus Gertsch and Davis, Oonops chickeringi Brignoli) are transferred to the new genus Toloonops, characterized by retaining a separate palpal bulb and cymbium, having the cymbial cone near the cymbial margin, and having posteriorly directed projections on the male endites that originate far from the anterior endite margins; five new species are described: T. chiapa, T. jacala, T. veracruz, T. belmo, and T. verapaz. Six similar new species, united by having a stepped male endite profile and a subapical sclerite on the anterior genitalic process of females, are assigned to the new genus Guatemoonops: G. purulha, G. rhino, G. jaba, G. chilasco, G. augustin, and G. zacapa. Oonops mckenziei Gertsch is transferred to the new genus Emboonops, characterized by having a fused palpal bulb and cymbium, a hypertrophied embolus, and often a V-shaped female anterior genitalic process; nine new species are described: E. tuxtlas, E. tamaz, E. catrin, E. nejapa, E. calco, E. palenque, E. bonampak, E. arriaga, and E. hermosa.

VL - 3824 UR - http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6576?show=full ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A new goblin spider genus of the Zyngoonops group from Costa Rica, with notes on Coxapopha (Araneae, Oonopidae) JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 2014 A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Berniker, Lily A1 - Víquez, Carlos SP - 1 EP - 20 AB -

A new genus, Hexapopha, is described for a group of species from Costa Rica that resemble those of Coxapopha Platnick in having an elevated carapace and heavily sclerotized, highly modified male endites but differ in retaining six eyes, lacking leg spines, and having no female genitalic scape. Xestaspis reimoseri Fage is transferred to Hexapopha as the type species, its female is described for the first time, and three new species (H. hone, H. jimenez, and H. osa) are described. Dysderina caeca Birabén, from Argentina, is transferred to Coxapopha.

VL - 3820 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Quelques arachnides provenant de fourmilieres ou de termitieres du Costa Rica JF - Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris Y1 - 1938 A1 - Fage, Louis SP - 369 EP - 376 VL - (2) 10 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The world goblin spiders of the new genus Neotrops (Araneae: Oonopidae), part 1 JF - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History Y1 - 2013 A1 - Grismado, Christian J A1 - Ramírez, Martín J SP - 1 EP - 150 AB -

A new genus of soft-bodied oonopids, Neotrops, is established for a large assemblage of goblin spiders found in all tropical and subtropical areas of the Neotropical region, from Panama to Uruguay and central Argentina. Members of Neotrops have spinose forelegs, and share a general palpal morphology with those of Heteroonops Dalmas, but have a prolateral conductor connected with an internal bulbal vesicle that presumably discharges its secretion through a prolateral slit. Females lack a posterior receptacle in the internal genitalia, having only a posterodorsal plate serving for muscle attachment. Here we treat all the species except those from Brazil, which will be addressed in a subsequent paper. Twenty-three new species are described: N. darwini (type species), N. lorenae, and N. sciosciae (from Argentina and Uruguay); N. yunga, N. piacentinii, N. poguazu, and N. lopardoae (from Argentina); N. rubioi, N. pombero, and N. avalosi (from Argentina and Paraguay); N. labarquei (from Uruguay), N. yabare, N. izquierdoi, and N. kopuchianae (from Bolivia); N. pithecia, N. silvae, and N. pakitza (from Peru); N. platnicki, and N. waorani (from Ecuador); N. santamarta and N. caparu (from Colombia); and N. maracay and N. amacuro (from Venezuela). Four additional species, previously placed in Oonops Templeton, are transferred here to Neotrops: O. nigromaculatus Mello-Leita ̃o, from Argentina and Uruguay; O. tucumanus Simon, from Argentina; O. donaldi Chickering, from Panama; and O. trapellus Chickering, from Trinidad and Venezuela. The females of the three latter species are here described for the first time. Most of the species are known from the leaf litter or the foliage of tropical and subtropical forests, but also from grasslands in the southern parts of their distributional range, where they appear as the dominant soft-bodied oonopids. The relationships of this new taxon are briefly discussed, and intrageneric groupings are also proposed.

VL - 383 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The goblin spider genus Oonopoides in North and Central America (Araneae, Oonopidae) JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 2013 A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Berniker, Lily SP - 1 EP - 38 AB -

The goblin spider genus Oonopoides Bryant was established for a species from Cuba, Oonopoides maxillaris Bryant, and most of the species that have subsequently been assigned to the genus are from that island. The group is actually circum-Caribbean in distribution, but many of its members have been misplaced in the genus Oonops Templeton; here we treat those representatives of the genus that have been collected in North and Central America. Six specific names are transferred from Oonops to Oonopoides: O. endicus Chickering from Florida and the Bahama Islands, O. secretus Gertsch from Texas and Tamaulipas, O mitchelli Gertsch from Mexico, and O. pallidulus (Chickering), O. tenebus Chickering, and O. anoxus Chickering from Panama. Males of O. zullinii Brignoli from Mexico and females of O. secretus are described for the first time; O. tenebus is placed as the male, and hence a junior synonym, of O. pallidulus. The holotype of Oonops zeteki Chickering from Panama is a juvenile that probably belongs to Costarina Platnick and Dupérré and the name is placed as a nomen dubium. Eight new species are described: O. iviei from Florida and the Bahama Islands, O. catemaco, O. chicanna, and O. kaplanae from Mexico, O. hondo from Honduras, O. cristo and O. upala from Costa Rica, and O. cartago from Costa Rica and Panama.

VL - 3788 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Arachnofauna de la Isla del Coco, Costa Rica, y descripción de un nuevo Surazomus (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae) JF - Revista Ibérica de Aracnología Y1 - 2014 A1 - de Armas, Luis F A1 - Víquez, Carlos SP - 71 EP - 75 KW - Costa Rica KW - especie nueva KW - faunística KW - faunistics KW - Hubbardiidae KW - new species KW - Océano Pacífico KW - Pacific Ocean KW - taxonomía KW - taxonomy AB -

Se listan las 21 especies de arácnidos hasta ahora conocidas de la Isla del Coco, Costa Rica, y se describe una especie nueva de esquizómidos del género Surazomus Reddell & Cokendolpher, 1995, sobre la base de dos machos heteromorfos y uno homeomorfo, más 11 hembras adultas y 15 inmaduros. Este constituye el primer registro del orden Schizomida para esta isla del Pacífico costarricense.

The 21 arachnids known from Isla del Coco (Costa Rica) are listed, and a new schizomid species belonging to the genus Surazomus Reddell & Cokendolpher, 1995 is described on the basis of two heteromorphic males, one homeomorphic male, 11 adult females and 15 immatures. This is the first record of the order Schizomida from this Pacific Ocean Costa Rican island.

VL - 25 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux JF - Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique Y1 - 1903 A1 - Simon, Eugène SP - 21 EP - 39 VL - 47 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Biologia Centrali-Americana T2 - Arachnida. Araneida Y1 - 1896 A1 - Pickard-Cambridge, Octavius ED - Godman, Ducane ED - Salvin, Osbert SP - 161 EP - 224 JF - Arachnida. Araneida PB - Published for the editors by R. H. Porter CY - London VL - Arachnida 1 UR - http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/bca/navigation/bca_07_00_00/bca_07_00_00select.cfm ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Histoire naturelle des araignées Y1 - 1893 A1 - Simon, Eugène SP - 257 EP - 488 AB -

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The type species of Costarina, C. plena (O. P.-Cambridge), is redescribed, has an unusually broad distribution (extending from southern Mexico to northern Costa Rica), and is sometimes sympatric with a relatively widespread new sibling species, C. subplena. The same region also houses 26 additional new species with much smaller distribution ranges: C. iviei, C. llama, C. oaxaca, C. mixtepec, C. naja, C. sepultura, and C. bochil from southern Mexico, C. belmopan, C. peten, C. macha, C. cahui, C. morales, and C. izabal from Belize and Guatemala, C. cortes, C. cofradia, C. cusuco, C. tela, C. ceiba, C. branstetteri, C. olancho, C. muralla, C. coma, and C. gracias from Honduras, and C. waspuk, C. musun, and C. blanco from Nicaragua. At least 11 of these highly localized, microdistributed species have been taken in sympatry with C. plena. Because C. plena and C. subplena are the only members of the genus that have been collected in western and southern Guatemala, we suspect that this area represents the original range of one or both of the widespread species. However, five pairs of the microdistributed species have also been taken in sympatry with each other (and in one case together with C. plena as well)

VL - 3730 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2246/6152 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genus Reductoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae) JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 2014 A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Berniker, Lily SP - 1 EP - 75 AB - A new genus, Reductoonops, is established for a group of New World soft-bodied oonopine spiders, found from Mexico south to Chile, characterized by reduced size, a flattened clypeus, loss of the posterior median spinnerets, and often by loss of the four posterior eyes. Members of this group resemble those of Stenoonops Simon but lack the clump of short setae found on the dorsal surface of the palpal tarsus of both sexes in that genus, and often have four pairs of deep channels at the sides of the sternum, the most anterior pair of which demarcate a short, trapezoidal, anterior portion of the sternum. A total of 34 new species are described from Mexico (chamela, armeria, niltepec, real, nubes, jabin), Costa Rica (monte, lucha), Costa Rica and Panama (naci), Panama (almirante, escopeta, bayano), Jamaica (ferry), Curaçao (hato), Martinique (diamant), Colombia (marta, sasaima, meta, leticia), Ecuador (tandapi, pichincha, tina, domingo, otonga, palenque, napo, jatun, hedlite, molleturo, celica, yasuni), the Galapagos Islands (pinta), Peru (carpish), and Chile (elqui). VL - 3811 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Neotropical goblin spiders of the new genera Ponsoonops and Bipoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae) JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 2014 A1 - Bolzern, Angelo SP - 1 EP - 70 AB - Two new genera, Ponsoonops and Bipoonops, are established for groups of species characterized by sexually dimorphic dorsal abdominal scutum expression (with a scutum present in males but not females), male palps with a separate cymbium and bulb, and a patterned abdomen. Both genera belong therefore to the Varioonops complex, represented now by three described Neotropical genera. Members of Ponsoonops are united by three putative synapomorphies in males: a "pierlike" dorsal scutum completely fused to the epigastric scutum, a patch of short setae ventrodistally on metatarsi I and II, and a short anteromedian protrusion on the endites. Female Ponsoonops specimens differ from other members of the Varioonops complex in having small lateral sclerites at the epigynal area and a smooth sternum. Members of Bipoonops share a large, irregularly shaped, rather indistinct dark spot posteriorly on the carapace, a putative synapomorphy, and a moderately rugose sternum surface; males are characterized by a distinct, bipartite conductor. A total of 22 Ponsoonops species, 21 new to science, are described: P. duenas, P. hamus, and P. tacana from Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, P. bilzi, P. lucha, P. samadam, P. sanvito, and P. viejo from Costa Rica, P. bollo, P. boquete, P. coiba, P. fanselix, P. frio, P. lerida, P. mirante, P. panto, P. salimsa, and P. vuena from Panama, P. pansedro from Colombia, P. micans (Simon, transferred from Dysderoides) from Venezuela, P. yumuri from Cuba, and P. lavega from the Dominican Republic. Bipoonops is described for three new species found on the western slope of the Andes in Ecuador: B. baobab, B. pucuna, and B. tsachila. VL - 3803 UR - http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6530 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The goblin spider genus Costarina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 2: the Costa Rican fauna JF - American Museum Novitates Y1 - 2014 A1 - Platnick, Norman I A1 - Berniker, Lily A1 - Víquez, Carlos SP - 1 EP - 75 AB -

The type species of Costarina, C. plena (O. P.-Cambridge), is widely distributed, occurring from southern Mexico to southern Costa Rica, but Costa Rica also houses an extraordinarily large fauna of endemic, less widely distributed Costarina species. In addition to the two previ- ously described species, C. meridina (Chickering, the female of which is newly described) and C. watina (Chickering), 49 new endemic species are described: C. paraplena, superplena, maritza, cima, elena, monte, murphyorum, chiles, upala, poas, selva, viejo, rafael, azul, carara, nara, aguirre, quepos, carrillo, ramon, isidro, san, cuerici, leones, junio, reventazon, macho, cruz, chonta, barbilla, espavel, veragua, pity, penshurst, hitoy, mooreorum, cerere, frantzius, gemelo, pittier, alturas, cruces, ubicki, palmar, parabio, semibio, jimenez, parapalmar, and osa. Two other species also occur in Costa Rica. Costarina concinna (Chickering) is placed as the male (and hence a senior synonym) of C. potena (Chickering), both of which were described from Volcán, Panama; the species appears to be a relatively widespread, southern vicariant of C. plena. The Panamanian species C. obtina (Chickering) is also newly recorded from Costa Rica, and its female is described for the first time.

VL - 3794 UR - http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6467 ER -