Title
The goblin spider genus Costarina (Araneae, Oonopidae). Part 2, The Costa Rican fauna
Title Variants
Alternative:
Costa Rican fauna
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 3794
By
Platnick, Norman I.
Berniker, Lily
Víquez, Carlos
Goblin Spider Planetary Biodiversity Inventory.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, NY American Museum of Natural History 2014
Notes
Caption title.
"January 6, 2014."
Part 1 issued as no. 3730 (2012) of American Museum novitates.
Part of the oonopid PBI project. (Acknowledgments)
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 previously 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.
Subjects
Arachnida
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Classification
,
Costa Rica
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Costarina
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Oonopidae
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Spiders
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.3794 2014
Language
English
Identifiers
OCLC:
867640099
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