Pheretima plumatomusculata

Planapheretima plumatomusculata (Thai, 1982) (Fig. 2) Pheretima plumatomusculata Thai, 1982: 829, Fig. 3 g; Thai 1997: 2, Fig. 2 B. Planapheretima plumatomusculata — Blakemore 2007: 81. Type locality. Vietnam (Ninh Binh). Type material. In the collection of Zoological Museum of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Material examined. 8 C, 7 A (CTU) Vinh Phuc Province, Tam Dao National Park, on the way to the observation tower, 25 July 1998, coll. Tran T.T.Binh. Records from Vietnam. Nghe An Province (Ky Son; Quy Hop); Ninh Binh Province (Cuc Phuong); Vinh Phuc Province (Tam Dao) (Thai 1997; Do 1994; Le 1995). Distribution. Only known from Vietnam. Remarks. The species is fairly similar to Planapheretima lacertina (Chen, 1946), but differs in having spermathecal pores paired in 5 / 6 / 7 dorsally and pigments dorsally (Thai 1997).Published as part of Nguyen, Tung T., Tran, Binh T. T. & Nguyen, Anh D., 2014, Earthworms of the ' acaecate' Pheretima group in Vietnam (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae), with description of a new species from the Mekong delta, pp. 105-121 in Zootaxa 3866 (1) on pages 110-111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/22756