Key to species: 
    
    
      
        
          1 
           | 
          Legs yellow, with
            exterior tibia ridges black, apex of scutellum yellow | 
          2 
           | 
        
        
           
           | 
          Legs dark brown,
            apex of scutellum concolorous | 
          caniliculatum (Le Peletier & Serville) 
           | 
        
        
          | 2  | 
          Pronotum including processi more
            than 2.1 times larger than body  | 
          patibulum Vollenhoven  | 
        
        
           
           | 
          Pronotum including processi less than
            1.7 times larger than body     
           | 
          maculigerum Stål 
           | 
        
      
    
    
    note: this provisionnal key is based on the comments of Vollenhoven, on
    the specimens I atttributed to 
canaliculatum
    and 
patibulum after examination, and on the picture of Stål type on the site of NHRS.