Alpaida species?

5mm | January 17, 2011 | Cahuita National Park, Limon Province, Costa Rica

One of my books (below) has a picture of a very similar looking spider identified as a spiny flag spider, Alpaida cornuta, also from Costa Rica. I wasn’t able to find anything online though using either the common name or the scientific name. The World Spider Catalog doesn’t seem to recognize that name at all, but I saw two species there from Costa Rica, A. bicornuta and A. championi. Perhaps this is one of those.

Here’s a similar looking unidentified Alpaida from Ecuador, so I think the genus is probably correct.

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