Kyrtalus Van Duzee, 1929

Salini, S. & Kment, Petr, 2021, The genera Agathocles and Surenus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) tribal reassessment, redescription, new synonyms, and description of two new species, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 510-559 : 546

Kyrtalus Van Duzee, 1929

Kyrtalus Van Duzee, 1929: 91–92 (original description). Type species: Kyrtalus mackiei Van Duzee, 1929 , by original description.

Systematic placement. Van Duzee (1929) described a nominotypical genus Kyrtalus Van Duzee, 1929 for K. mackiei Van Duzee, 1929 from Thailand, and compared it to Paramecocoris sensu Stål , which corresponds to Delagorguella (Myrocheini). Van Duzee (1929) mentioned in the original description mesosternum broadly sulcate and all femora with a few small teeth below near apex, characters that support its placement in Myrocheini (cf. Zahid 2006, Kment & Garbelotto 2016, Rider et al. 2018). We transfer here Kyrtalus to Myrocheini.