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Xestophanes potentillae
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Description
Xestophanes potentillae (Retzius, 1783)
[syn. Xestophanes szepligetii Balás, 1940 (syn. in Melika, 2006)]
Host plants/gall: Potentilla spp. (P. arenaria Borkh., P. canescens Bees., P. heptaphylla L., P. reptans L. etc.)—galls in root collar, on leaf petiole or stem.
Distribution in Dobrogea: Murfatlar CT county (Borcea, in Ionescu, 1957), Dobrogea (Ionescu, 1973), Uzlina village in Danube Delta, TL county (Mustaţӑ & Andriescu, 1993), Canaraua Fetii Natural Reserve, Eforie North-on Black Sea coast, Hagieni forest Natural Reserve, CT county (Şchiopu, herein recorded).
Notes
Published as part of Şchiopu, Ion, 2025, Gall wasps-inducers and inquilines (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae and Diplolepididae) from Dobrogea Province (South-Eastern of Romania), including new species records for this area, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 5665 (1) on page 6, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5665.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/16607610
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Retzius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Cynipidae
- Genus
- Xestophanes
- Species
- potentillae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Xestophanes potentillae (Retzius, 1783) sec. Şchiopu, 2025
References
- Retzius, A. J. (1783) Caroli lib. bar. De Geer. Genera et species Insectorum, e generosissimi auctoris scriptis. Apud Siegfried Lebrecht Crusium, Lipsiae, 70 p.
- Balas, G. (1940) Eine neue Xestophanes Art. Marcellia, 30 (1), 3-5.
- Melika, G. (2006) Gall wasps of Ukraine. Cynipidae. Vestnik zoologii, Supplement 21 (1 & 2), 1-300 & 301 - 644.
- Ionescu, A. M. (1957) Fauna Rep. Pop. Romine. Insecta. Cynipinae. Academia Republicii Populare Romane Press, BucureSti, 246 pp.
- Ionescu, A. M. (1973) Biologia galelor. Monografie cecidologica. Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, BucureSti, 178 pp. [Biology of Gall inducers. Monography on Cecidology]
- Mustata, Gh. & Andriescu, I. (1993) Specii de Cynipide (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea) semnalate in Delta Dunarii. Analele Stiintifice ale Institutului " Delta Dunarii " Tulcea, 135-138.