The goblin spider genus Costarina (Araneae, Oonopidae), Part 2: the Costa Rican fauna

Publication Type:Journal Article
Year of Publication:2014
Authors:N. I. Platnick, Berniker, L., Víquez, C.
Journal:American Museum Novitates
Volume:3794
Pagination:1-75
Abstract:

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.

URL:http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6467
Taxonomic name: 
Arachnida (Taxonomy), Araneae (Taxonomy), Oonopidae (Taxonomy), Costarina (Taxonomy), Costarina aguirre (Taxonomy), Costarina azul (Taxonomy), Costarina barbilla (Taxonomy), Costarina carara (Taxonomy), Costarina carrillo (Taxonomy), Costarina cerere (Taxonomy), Costarina chiles (Taxonomy), Costarina chonta (Taxonomy), Costarina cima (Taxonomy), Costarina cruces (Taxonomy), Costarina cruz (Taxonomy), Costarina cuerici (Taxonomy), Costarina elena (Taxonomy), Costarina espavel (Taxonomy), Costarina frantzius (Taxonomy), Costarina gemelo (Taxonomy), Costarina hitoy (Taxonomy), Costarina isidro (Taxonomy), Costarina junio (Taxonomy), Costarina leones (Taxonomy), Costarina macho (Taxonomy), Costarina maritza (Taxonomy), Costarina monte (Taxonomy), Costarina mooreorum (Taxonomy), Costarina murphyorum (Taxonomy), Costarina nara (Taxonomy), Costarina palmar (Taxonomy), Costarina paraplena (Taxonomy), Costarina penshurst (Taxonomy), Costarina pity (Taxonomy), Costarina pittier (Taxonomy), Costarina poas (Taxonomy), Costarina quepos (Taxonomy), Costarina rafael (Taxonomy), Costarina ramon (Taxonomy), Costarina reventazon (Taxonomy), Costarina san (Taxonomy), Costarina selva (Taxonomy), Costarina semibio (Taxonomy), Costarina superplena (Taxonomy), Costarina ubicki (Taxonomy), Costarina upala (Taxonomy), Costarina veragua (Taxonomy), Costarina viejo (Taxonomy), Costarina concinna (Taxonomy), Costarina meridina (Taxonomy), Costarina obtina (Taxonomy), Costarina plena (Taxonomy), Costarina watina (Taxonomy)
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