  New data from the Herschel Space Observatory are broadening our understanding
of the physics and evolution of the outer regions of protoplanetary disks in
star forming regions. In particular they prove to be useful to identify
transitional disk candidates. The goals of this work are to complement the
detections of disks and the identification of transitional disk candidates in
the Lupus clouds with data from the Herschel Gould Belt Survey. We extracted
photometry at 70, 100, 160, 250, 350 and 500 $\mu$m of all spectroscopically
confirmed Class II members previously identified in the Lupus regions and
analyzed their updated spectral energy distributions. We have detected 34 young
disks in Lupus in at least one Herschel band, from an initial sample of 123
known members in the observed fields. Using the criteria defined in Ribas et
al. (2013) we have identified five transitional disk candidates in the region.
Three of them are new to the literature. Their PACS-70 $\mu$m fluxes are
systematically higher than those of normal T Tauri stars in the same
associations, as already found in T Cha and in the transitional disks in the
Chamaeleon molecular cloud. Herschel efficiently complements mid-infrared
surveys for identifying transitional disk candidates and confirms that these
objects seem to have substantially different outer disks than the T Tauri stars
in the same molecular clouds.
