On the paradoxosomatid collection in the Field Museum of Natural History: Dragon millipedes from Laos (Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae: Hylomus) Author Nguyen, Anh D. Author Sierwald, Petra text Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 2019 2019-03-13 67 119 128 journal article 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0009 2345-7600 5343384 64F80D28-4530-4C07-A6FA-3AC6471C0B7F Hylomus laos , new species ( Figs. 5–8 ) Material examined. Holotype : male ( FMNH-INS 3716300 , 14.7 mm ), LAOS , Champasak Prov. , Bolaven Plateau , Ban Thongvay [=Xekatam], vic. old logging road, N of village, 1,095 m , 15°14.288′N – 106°31.891′E , selectively logged forest, FMHD#2008–037 , flight intercept trap , coll. A Newton & M. Thayer , ANMT site 1231, 8–16 June 2008 . Paratypes : 1 male , 1 female ( FMNH-INS 3716300 ) same data as for holotype . Other material : two male fragments ( FMNH-INS 3716299 ), LAOS , Champasak Prov. , Bolaven Plateau , Ban Thongvay [=Xekatam], vic. old logging road, N of village, 1,170 m , 15°14.494′N – 106°31.807′E , selectively logged forest, FMHD#2008–040 , flight intercept trap , coll. A Newton & M. Thayer , ANMT site 1232, 8–16 June 2008 . Diagnosis. The species can be recognised by antler-shaped paraterga, midbody metaterga with two rows of 2+2 anterior spines and 3+3 posterior spines, male femora 5 and 6 with big tubercles ventrally, male sternite 5 with a large, sparsely setose trapeziform lamina between coxae 4, epiproct unmodified, gonopod lamina lateralis broadly rounded, partly folded to sheath distal part of solenomere.