Hylomus specialis (Nguyen, Golovatch & Anichkin, 2005)

(Figs. 1, 14)

Desmoxytes specialis Nguyen, Golovatch & Anichkin, 2005: 254−255, figs. 14−19.

Hylomus specialis: Srisonchai et al. 2018a: 11 .

Material examined: 1 male (IEBR-29) Kon Tum Province, Ngoc Linh Mt., primary forest, 2,000 m, 25 March 2004, coll. Anh D. Nguyen; 1 male (IEBR-41) same locality, secondary forest, 1,800 m, 11 April 2004, coll. Anh D. Nguyen; 2 males, 1 female (IEBR-67) same locality, primary forest, 1,700 −1,900 m, 21 March − 9 April 2006, coll. Anh D. Nguyen.

Diagnosis: The species can be distinguished from its congeners by its darkish brown colouration; antenna being long; metaterga having two transverse rows of spines; paraterga being spine-shaped, long and increasingly pointed, with two additional spines at base caudolaterally; gonopod solenophore and solenomere being very long; spine z modest; femorite slightly curved (Fig. 14).

Previous records: Kon Tum Province (Ngoc Linh Mt.) (Nguyen et al. 2005).

Distribution: Only known from the Highland of Vietnam.