taxonID	type	description	language	source
038487AEBB484C7B18BEF9478B140C6A.taxon	materials_examined	Type data. ♂ holotype, 1 ♂ paratype (SMF RII 13948 / 299), from PERU, Cajamarca, Cueva de San Andrés, 30 km NE Cutervo.	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB484C7B18BEF9478B140C6A.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The allocation of this species to Platymessa is not supported by any combination of meaningful characters. On the other hand, we might tentatively transfer it to Chusgonobius based on (1) dorsal scutum narrow gamma-shaped; (2) shape of equuleus with long slender body forming a triangle, well-developed arms and feet and horns short, very close to each other; (3) femur IV of male moderately elongate, substraight, only bent on distal fourth and (4) a comb of five spines closely placed in a prolateral apical row of femur IV.	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4B4C7C18BEFED68C5D08C9.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Brachylibitia: from Greek βραχύς (short) + pre-existing generic name Libitia. Gender feminine. Platymessa: from Greek πλατύ- (flattened) + pre-existing generic name Messa. Gender feminine.	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4B4C7C18BEFED68C5D08C9.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Outline of the dorsal scutum beta-shaped in males and almost alpha-shaped in females (Figs 1, 7); coda longer in females (Fig. 9); scutal area V with two small paramedian granules; yellowish white color markings of scutum as a ladder mask (a pair of divergent bars connected by parallel thinner blots over scutal grooves) over dark brown background, thinner blots sometimes dissociated. Dorso-apical apophysis of coxa IV as a blunt spine (Figs 1, 7). Chelicerae monomorphic, weak, with marginal rows of acuminate tubercles of varied size on posterior border. Groin warts present, larger in female. Legs short and strong, femur III and IV slightly arched and with five longitudinal rows of small tubercles; basitarsomeres of leg I of male thicker than distitarsomeres but not swollen; cheliceral sockets shallow with well-marked lateral triangular projections. Taxonomic background of Brachylibitia and Platymessa. Mello-Leitão (1941) described the genera Brachylibitia and Platymessa with three species from Colombia: B. ectroxantha, P. h-inscriptum and P. nigrolimbata. These new genera were based on the armature of the scutal areas and the count of tarsomeres of the leg I (see Discussion section). Roewer (1963) described a third species of Platymessa, P. transversalis from Peru also based only on those features.	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4B4C7C18BEFED68C5D08C9.taxon	description	Included species. Platymessa ectroxantha (Mello-Leitão, 1941) comb. nov., species inquirenda and Platymessa h-inscriptum Mello-Leitão, 1941 (type species).	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4C4C7C18BEF9AB8C420A86.taxon	materials_examined	Type data. Type (s) (whereabouts unknown, probably once in MNRJ, now lost), COLOMBIA, Boyacá, La Uvita (6 ° 17 ’ N; 72 ° 30 ’ W).	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4C4C7C18BEF9AB8C420A86.taxon	etymology	Etymology. From Greek ἐκτρανόω (signify clearly) + ξανΘός (yellow).	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4C4C7C18BEF9AB8C420A86.taxon	discussion	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.	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4C4C7C18BEF9AB8C420A86.taxon	diagnosis	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.	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4F4C7118BEFA9A8C310C36.taxon	description	Cynorta h-inscripta: H. Soares 1970: 325. Platymessa h-inscripta: Kury 2003: 81.	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4F4C7118BEFA9A8C310C36.taxon	materials_examined	Type data. Platymessa h-inscriptum: COLOMBIA, Santander [and not Tolima as wrongly extrapolated by Kury 2003], Espinal, ♂ holotype (MNRJ 282, examined); Platymessa nigrolimbata: COLOMBIA, Santander, San Gil: ♀ holotype (MNRJ 463, examined); Boyacá, La Uvita, 2 ♂ and 1 ♀ paratypes (MNRJ 58, examined). Other material examined. COLOMBIA, Boyacá, Tipacoque, Vereda La Calera, (06 ° 23.8 ’ 91 ’’ N; 072 ° 43.4 ’ 10 ’’ W), 2800 m, 1 - 5 April 2013, M. Medrano, 1 ♂ and 11 ♀ (ICN-AO 1186); Santander, Zapatoca, Vereda La Cacica, Reserva La Montaña Mágica (6 ° 50,044 ' N; 73 ° 18,241 ' W), 1964 m, 6 November 2013, C. Perafán and D. Martínez, 1 ♂ and 2 ♀ (ICN-AO 1384). Taxonomic background of Platymessa h-inscriptum. By the original description of P. h-inscriptum, Mello- Leitão (1941) used an upper-case H and feminine ending. Those were corrected later to lower-case (Kury 2003) and neuter gender (Kury & Alonso-Zarazaga 2011), although the hyphen should be kept. H. Soares (1970) (probably by a lapse) during the description of another species used this species (as a comparison) in combination with Cynorta, thus following the reasoning of Goodnight & Goodnight (1953), although these authors had not mentioned Platymessa in their extensive synonymy.	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4F4C7118BEFA9A8C310C36.taxon	discussion	Remarks. The characters allowing the recognition of P. nigrolimbata as a distinct species as proposed by Mello-Leitão (1941) have not been explicitly stated by him, but by reading the descriptions the differences clearly rely on (1) the pattern of the scutal white blots and (2) tarsomere counts. All of these fall within the range of variation as shown here.	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4F4C7118BEFA9A8C310C36.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Scutal area I with a pair, area V with two small blunt tubercles. Ladder-blot with well-marked divergent rails. Tarsus III hexamerous. Length of legs ca. 7 / 14 / 9 / 11 mm.	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4F4C7118BEFA9A8C310C36.taxon	materials_examined	Description of male holotype (with extra figures from other specimens). Measurements. CL = 1.68, AL = 2.77, CW = 2.68, AW = 4.39, Fe IV = 4.13, Ti IV = 3.06. Dorsum (Figs. 1, 7). Dorsal scutum beta-shaped, areas I, III and V with small tubercles and area IV with minute tubercles more separately that the ones of the other areas. Lateral margins with a row of minute tubercles at the bulge. Posterior margin of scutum straight in dorsal view with a row of small tubercles. All tergites and anal operculum finely granular and unarmed. Venter (Figs 2, 4). Free sternites finely granular, unarmed. Chelicerae (Fig. 28). Basichelicerite with posterior row of many tubercles, of which six are larger. Pedipalps (Fig. 26, 27). Trochanter with strong ventral process. Femur with pronounced dorsal keel, with a ventral row of eleven setiferous tubercles and a strong mesodistal process. Shallow slit along tibia mesal surface, separating the dorsal and ventral sides. Legs (Figs 5, 6 and 22 - 24). Coxa IV with groin warts. Trochanter IV with small retro-distal apophysis. Femur IV slightly arched with two longitudinal ventral rows of small tubercles along his entire length, increasing in size apically. Patella IV substraight with small setiferous tubercles. Tarsal counts: 6 - 6 /? - 10 / 6 - 6 / 7 - 7. Color. Body and appendages brown. Ladder mask yellowish white. Genitalia (Figs 19 - 21). Penis ventral plate subrectangular, narrower basally, with lateral borders parallel and distal border slightly concave; dorsal apophysis of glans subsquare, wattle long. Macrosetae B located in the proximal third of the ventral plate. The shapes and organization of macrosetae are as follows: MS C 1 - C 2 large, curved and flat at the apex; MS D 1 - D 2 large, cylindrical, just curved at the apex, more dorsal than the others; MS D 1 as large as C 2 and moderately curved, but not flattened, MS D 2 more basal and straight (see Discussion for details). MS A 1 - A 2 large, straight, cylindrical and located almost in the middle of the ventral plate; MS B and MS E 1 - E 2 ventral, very small and immersed in the microsetae. The MS B are the most basal MS. Microsetae confined to the lateral margins of the ventral plate.	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4F4C7118BEFA9A8C310C36.taxon	description	Variation. Color in 70 % ethanol, medium to light brown with a posterior yellowish-white line that can be dissociated in the middle forming two short lines in the extremes, a small spot or nothing. Pattern of yellow spots as in figures 10 to 18. Tubercles of pedipalpal femur vary in number from 9 to 11. Tarsal counts: 5 - 6; 8 - 12; 5 - 6; 6 - 7. Variation of measurements are given in Table 1. Males n = 6 Females n = 14 Sexual dimorphism. Females subtly larger than males with coda longer and correspondent shorter bulge, making its dorsal scutum alpha-shaped (Figs. 8, 9). Males with basitarsus thicker but not notably swollen (Fig. 25), groin warts smaller that in females (Figs. 5, 6).	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
038487AEBB4F4C7118BEFA9A8C310C36.taxon	distribution	Distribution. P. h-inscriptum was described from the locality “ Espinal, Colombia ” by Mello-Leitão (1941), which Kury (2003) wrongly extrapolated as “ Espinal, Tolima ”. However, we found a more suitable location for this name, as there is a Espinal in Santander, which corresponds to a place near San Gil, Santander and La Uvita, Boyacá, type locality and record, respectively, of P. nigrolimbata (Fig. 29). All of these occurrences match the WWF ecoregion NT 0136 (Magdalena Valley montane forests).	en	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): 52-62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.2
