New genus Palpotreta is proposed within the subfamily Ototretinae and one new species P. ramicornis sp. nov. from Sri Lanka is proposed as new to science. Illustrations of diagnostic characters are given.
Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Terezy Novakove 64, CZ-62100 Brno, Czech Republic
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