Review and revision of Australian Germalus Stål, with new genera and further new species of Australian Geocorinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Geocoridae) Author Malipatil, M. B. Author Blacket, M. J. text Zootaxa 2013 3746 2 257 300 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3746.2.3 112d8c10-eade-4f43-9f8d-3f8042ec2fd2 1175-5326 248936 86A7ED83-1A8E-4227-9BD6-5949E57C392F Key to Australian species of Germalus 1. Body dorsally with broad median fuscous band extending from base of head through to end of abdomen including genital segments ( Figs. 80 b, 83).......................................................................... fuscovittatus - Body dorsally not coloured as above...................................................................... 2 2. Head ochraceous with three black spots or patches, one near apex, and one encircling each ocellus; eyes conspicuously stylate and laterally slightly directed forward, so that an imaginary straight line through posterior margin of eyes does not touch anterior margin of pronotum ( Figs. 63, 64 )............................................................. coloratus - Head and eyes not as above.............................................................................. 3 3. Scutellum with two medial blackish spots ( Figs. 45, 46 ); femora with a broad subapical darker band (sometimes indistinct); pronotal calli each with an irregular and vague dark spot; pronotum with six vague longitudinal fuscous stripes (sometimes broken); spermatheca with very short duct behind bulb; paramere blade truncate at apex ( Figs. 60–62 )........... lineolosus - Without the above combination of characters................................................................ 4 4. Body narrow, elongate, parallel sided ( Fig. 98 ); head with gular area broadly flattened and demarcated, and densely covered with long fine setae.............................................................................. littoralis - Without the above combination of characters............................................................... 5 5. Body generally pale ochraceous; pronotum lacking defined fuscous spots on humeral angles; pronotum, clavus and corium with fine punctures ( Figs. 27, 28 ).................................................................. australis - Body generally ochraceous to pale ochraceous; pronotum with each humeral angle with a fuscous spot ( Fig. 10 ); pronotum, clavus and corium with coarse punctures ( Fig. 9 )....................................................... victoriae