Hylomus spectabilis (Attems, 1937)

(Figs. 1, 15)

Centrodesmus spectabilis Attems, 1937: 124, fig. 159; Attems 1938: 235−238, figs. 65−70.

Pratinus spectabilis: Jeekel 1964: 63; Jeekel 1968: 61.

Desmoxytes spectabilis: Golovatch & Enghoff 1994: 61; Nguyen et al. 2005: 255−256, figs. 20−25; Nguyen & Sierwald 2013: 1242; Likhitrakarn et al. 2015: 498, figs. 11−12.

Hylomus spectabilis: Jeekel 1980: 658; Srisonchai et al. 2018a: 11.

Material examined: 1 female (IEBR-36) Da Nang Province, Ba Na National Park, forest, near stream, 26−27 April 2002, coll. Quynh & Lich; 1 male, 1 female (IEBR-37) same locality, summit, 23 April 2002, coll. Quynh & Lich; 1 female, 4 juveniles (IEBR-36) Kon Tum Province, Lo Xo pass, 80km north of Kon Tum, secondary forest, 840 m, 17 April 2004, coll. Anh D. Nguyen; 1 female (IEBR-64), same locality, pitfall trapping, 15−19 April 2002, coll. Anh D. Nguyen.

Diagnosis: The species can be distinguished from its congeners by the paraterga being wing-shaped; metaterga having two transverse rows of 2 + 2 and 1 + 1 well developed spines; the sternum 5th having two independent, round tubercles between coxae 4; gonopod being slightly expanded distad; demarcation between postfemoral region and femorite being present; spine z being well developed (Fig. 15).

Previous records: Da Nang Province (Ba Na Mt.) (Attems 1937).

Distribution: Only known from southern Vietnam.