Metapheretima vietnamensis Thai, 1984

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Metapheretima vietnamensis Thai, 1984: 614, Fig. 1 B; Blakemore 2007: 104.

Type material. 1C (W.270, Zoological Museum of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia) (Thai, 1984)

Records from Vietnam. Gia Lai Province (An Khe town); Da Nang City (Hoa Vang); Quang Nam Province (Hiep Duc; Tra My) (Thai 1984; Pham 1995a).

Distribution. Only known from Vietnam.

Remarks. The species is relatively similar to Metapheretima speiseri (Michaelsen, 1913) and Metapheretima apunae Lee, 1981, but differs from both in having two pairs of spermathecal pores in 5/6 and the spermathecal diverticulum originating from the spermathecal duct (Thai 1984).