Platymessa ectroxantha ( Mello-Leitão, 1941 ) Medrano & Kury, 2016

Medrano, Miguel & Kury, Adriano B., 2016, Characterization of Platymessa with redescription of the type species and a new generic synonymy (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cosmetidae), Zootaxa 4085 (1), pp. 52-62 : 57

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5093CA8A-2BBC-420D-B7D2-B4B4C0E285D6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6078827

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038487AE-BB4C-4C7C-18BE-F9AB8C420A86

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Plazi

scientific name

Platymessa ectroxantha ( Mello-Leitão, 1941 )
status

comb. nov.

Platymessa ectroxantha ( Mello-Leitão, 1941) View in CoL comb. nov., species inquirenda

Brachylibitia ectroxantha Mello-Leitão, 1941: 166 View in CoL , fig. 1; Kury 2003: 38. Cynorta ectroxantha: Goodnight & Goodnight 1953: 38 View in CoL .

Type data. Type (s) (whereabouts unknown, probably once in MNRJ, now lost), COLOMBIA, Boyacá, La Uvita (6°17’N; 72°30’W) GoogleMaps .

Etymology. From Greek ἐκτρανόω (signify clearly) + ξανΘός (yellow).

Remarks. The type material of this species is lost. Mello-Leitão’s original description is enough to recognize this as a Platymessa as defined here and a different species from P. h-inscriptum, although a search for topotypes is needed to allow the assessment of many characters. Therefore, the comparative diagnosis as given here is severely limited to what can be squeezed from the original description.

Diagnosis. Scutal area I unarmed, area V with two acuminate tubercles. Ladder-blot with rungs only, no rails. Tarsus III heptamerous. Length of legs ca. 9/15/11 / 15 mm.

MNRJ

Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opiliones

Family

Cosmetidae

Genus

Platymessa

Loc

Platymessa ectroxantha ( Mello-Leitão, 1941 )

Medrano, Miguel & Kury, Adriano B. 2016
2016
Loc

Brachylibitia ectroxantha Mello-Leitão, 1941 : 166

Kury 2003: 38
Goodnight 1953: 38
Mello-Leitao 1941: 166
1941
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