Eurystethus Mayr, 1864

This genus can be recognized by having body depressed oval to elliptical, the head is usually slightly shorter than the median length of the pronotum, the mesosternum is hexagonal and wider than long, the scutellum does not reach the apex of abdomen, the labial segments I and II with an intercalary unit between them, the surface of the pronotum and scutellum has tubercles or processes, and the basal region of the scutellum with a pair of large tubercles (Ruckes 1966d).