Polypheretima parataprobanae (Thai & Nguyen, 1993) Pheretima parataprobanae Thai & Nguyen, 1993: 7, fig. 1C; Pham 1995c: 102; Nakamura 1999: 23; Thai 2000a: 310; Nguyen V.T. & Tran 2008: 185; Pham 2010: 63. Polypheretima? parataprobanae— Blakemore 2007a: 77; Blakemore 2008b. Polypheretima parataprobanae— Nguyen et al. 2014: 116. Type locality. Vietnam (Thua Thien Hue). Type material. SORC (HV.225), Vietnam Examined material. 1 C (SORC-HV.225) Thua Thien Hue Prov., Hue city, Nguyet Bieu, sandy garden, 13/ 01/1985, coll. Nguyen Van Thuan. Records from Vietnam. Thua Thien Hue (Hue city, Bach Ma NP); Da Nang (Hoa Vang); Binh Dinh; (Nguyen 1993; Pham 1995c; Nguyen V. T. & Tran 2008; Pham 2010). Distribution. Only known from Vietnam. Vietnamese name. Trùn cận taprobanae. Remarks. The species is fairly similar to Polypheretima taprobanae (Beddard, 1892), but differs in absence of genital markings in the male region, and having a pair of genital markings near the spermathecal pores.

Published as part of Nguyen, Tung T., Nguyen, Anh D., Tran, Binh T. T. & Blakemore, Robert J., 2016, A comprehensive checklist of earthworm species and subspecies from Vietnam (Annelida: Clitellata: Oligochaeta: Almidae, Eudrilidae, Glossoscolecidae, Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae, Moniligastridae, Ocnerodrilidae, Octochaetidae), pp. 1-92 in Zootaxa 4140 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4140.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/256507