Key to the Germalus species of the Malagasy region 1. Body length> 6mm. Body colour uniformly pale ochraceous with dark blackish, rounded spots in humeral angles and corial apices...................................................................... Germalus benyovszkyi sp.nov. - Body length ~ 5mm. Body colour as above except spots at corial apices missing................................... 2. 2. Pronotum almost rectangular, slightly narrowing anteriorly. Punctuation of median vein of corium almost complete. Colouration sordid ochraceous with dark brownish punctures, spots at humeral angles faded, posterior margin of corium sometimes red........................................................................... Germalus kinbergi (Stål, 1859) - Pronotum more trapezoidal with slight lateral impressions medially. Median vein of corium punctate in the apical third only. Coloration ochraceous with brownish spots in humeral angles and a fuscous line medially on head and pronotum.......................................................................................... Germalus banari sp.nov.

Published as part of Kóbor, P. & Kondorosy, E., 2016, Germalus species of the Malagasy region (Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea: Geocoridae), pp. 444-450 in Zootaxa 4200 (3) on page 445, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/187236