Seven species assigned to Kiritshenkella Boechsenius, 1948, and seven in Balanococcus Williams, 1960, are revised on the basis of literature data; a key to all species and brief descriptions are provided. Kiritshenkella seems to be a heterogenic assemblage, and species assigned to Balanococcus might be placed in Kiritshenkella, as well. A new species found in Roztocze (S-E Poland) — Kiritshenkella lianae — living in leaf sheaths of Carex, and showing some morphological similarities to K. fushanensis and B. scirpi, is described and illustrated.