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).