Key to Species of Poeciloterpa Stål

1 Tegmina with a more or less discrete blackish transverse band (complete or broken) on apical half (Figs 17, 25, 61–62, 73, 84, 86, 98).............................................................................................. 2

- Tegmina without a black transverse band................................................................... 5

2 Transverse band on tegmina complete (Figs 62, 73).......................................... P. latipennis Schmidt

- Transverse band on tegmina broken (Figs 17, 25)............................................................ 3

3 If the specimen is a female (Figs 84, 86).................................................... P. minuta Lallemand

- If the specimen is a male............................................................................... 4

4 Subgenital plates almost the same width along 2/3 of its length then drastically getting thinner with a sharp apex (Fig. 97)....................................................................................... P. minuta Lallemand

- Subgenital plate enlarging slightly along the second third of its length then regularly tapering towards the apex in the last third (Fig. 24).................................................................................. P. atra Jacobi

5 Tegmina with a coloured band following costal margin (Figs 28, 38, 111, 127)..................................... 6

- Tegmina without a coloured band following costal margin..................................................... 9

6 Tegmina red or brown with a band of colour black or red (Figs 111, 127)......................................... 7

- Tegmina blackish to black with a red band (Figs 28, 38)....................................................... 8

7 Tegmina mostly reddish with a black band following costal margin up to apex and a black patch in middle; length 5 mm (Figs 109, 111, 113, 115)..................................................................... P. nigrolimbata Stål

- Tegmina brown except for a large red band along costal margin (Figs 127–130); length 6.5 mm .......................................................................................................... P. rufolimbata Schmidt

8 Tegmina black except for a bright red band along costal margin (Figs 26, 28); red legs (Fig. 27); length 7–8 mm .......................................................................... P. conica Crispolon et Soulier-Perkins sp. nov.

- Tegmina blackish except for discrete reddish brown band along costal margin (Figs 36, 38); brown legs (Figs 37, 41); Length 6.5 mm ............................................................................... P. fusca Lallemand

9 Tegmina completely dark brown or black (Figs 11–13, 99–101 and 117–119)..................................... 10

- Tegmina generally red except for the apical cells that can be yellowish to dark brown (Figs 1–3, 50–52, 74–76, 138–140)..................................................................................................... 12

10 Legs red (Figs 100–101)................................................................. P. montana Schmidt

- Legs brown......................................................................................... 11

11 Total length 5.5 mm (Figs 118–119)........................................................ P. obscura Schmidt

- Total length 3 to 4 mm (Figs 12–13).................................................... female of P. atra Jacobi

12 Radial vein reaching costal margin (Figs 10, 59)............................................................ 13

- Radial vein not reaching costal margin (Figs 83, 147)........................................................ 14

13 Subgenital plate with dorsal and ventral margins undulating (Fig. 7)........................................................................................................... P. altissima Crispolon et Soulier-Perkins sp. nov.

- Subgenital plate slightly boomerang shaped with dorsal margin concave and ventral margin convex (Fig. 56)..................................................................................... P. gapudi Crispolon et Yap sp. nov.

14 Tegmina light red with yellowish apical cells (Figs 138–139).................................. P. unicolor Lallemand

- Tegmina bright red with brown apical cells (Figs 74, 76)......................... P. mangkas Crispolon et Yap sp. nov.