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