Key to Indian species of Plotina Lewis 1. Pronotum bi- or tricolored, elytra reddish brown, with two large white-yellowish spots—one on anterior margin and one posteriorly situated below middle, and four smaller black spots (Fig. 13a)........................... P. muelleri Mader -. Pronotum monochromatic, red-brown, elytra dark reddish brown, each elytron with four pale yellow maculae on black background, arranged in a 2-2 pattern (Fig. 14a)..................................... P. octomaculata Wang & Ren

Published as part of Poorani, J., Větrovec, Jaroslav & Szawaryn, Karol, 2025, A review of Indian Plotinini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) including description of a new species, pp. 451-481 in Zootaxa 5711 (4) on page 468, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17884072