Pseudodesmus variegatus (Attems, 1938)

Sumatronium variegatum Attems, 1938: 308, figs 236–243.

Type material.

1 male and 2 juveniles (NHMW - MY 2287).

Historical diagnosis.

According to Attems (1938: p. 308), the species can be recognized by striking coloration of fairly irregular distribution of black and yellow-brown color; male with 53–56 body rings, length 32 mm, width 5.8 mm; collum scarcely wider than the head; other metazonites densely covered with tiny hairs dorsally on the tubercles and on the underside of paraterga, with 2 transverse rows of shiny tubercles; anterior row of 8–15 + 8–15 tubercles, extending to paraterga; posterior row of 5–7 + 5–7 tubercles present only on metaterga.

Record from Vietnam.

Lam Dong Province (Lang Bian).