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Table 9 in Revision of Holarctic Illidops Mason (Hymenoptera, Braconidae): A first step towards resolving a dark taxon and descriptions of three new species
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- 1. SNSB - Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstrasse 21, 81247 Munich, Germany.
- 2. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo 15, 01054, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- 3. Canadian National Collection of Insects, 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON K 1 A 0 C 6 Canada.
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Table 9. Hosts of different species of Illidops Mason, 1981, including the source of the information and comments regarding the reliability of the information.
| Parasitoid species | Host family | Host species | Reference | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illidops albostigmalis | Crambidae | Prophantis sp. | Fernandez-Triana & van Achterberg (2017: 297) original description | Two male specimens from Yemen (Hammam ‘Ali) reared from Prophantis sp. (Crambidae), ‘coffee berry moth’. Both are not types. |
| Illidops butalidis | Scythrididae | Scythris fuscoaenea | Wilkinson (1945: 196), redescription | Holotype reared from this host. |
| Scythris picaepennis | Wilkinson (1945: 196), redescription | Many specimens (>100) reared by R.L.E. Ford. | ||
| Illidops kostjuki | Tortricidae | Aphelia stigmatana | Tobias & Kotenko (1986: 56), original description | This information likely refers to type material, but no details are provided. |
| Illidops mutabilis | ? Pyralidae | ? Etiella zinckenella | Tobias & Kotenko (1986: 753) | This is not a record from type material. The association first appears here and it is unclear how it was made. |
| Illidops cf. naso BOLD:AEI9858 | ? Gelechiidae | ? Aroga velocella | Specimen ZSM-HYM-42448-E05 | Host not preserved as voucher, but reared by Tina Schulz, a lepidopterist. |
| Illidops planiscapus | ? Crambidae | ? Talis quercella | Tobias (1976: 49) original description | Question mark in front of Tobias’ identification, this association is very uncertain. |
| Illidops scutellaris | Gelechiidae | Phthorimaea operculella | Muesebeck (1921: 534), original description, plus host info on paratype. | “Four female and three male specimens bred by J.E. Graf [...]”. |
| Illidops suevus | Psychidae | Rebelia sp. | Papp (1984: 288) | Based on rearing experiments by Dr L. Gozmány in Montenegro. |
| ? Epichnopterix sp. | Nixon (1976: 713) | Information on junior synonym A. dion, non-type material. | ||
| Illidops terrestris | Pyralidae | Elasmopalpus lignosellus | Wharton (1983: 669) | Holotype reared ex. E. lignosellus on peanuts, other specimens ex. Elasmopalpus sp. on cowpeas. |
Notes
Published as part of Höcherl, Amelie, Kaliuzhna, Maryna, Raupach, Michael J. & Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., 2025, Revision of Holarctic Illidops Mason (Hymenoptera, Braconidae): A first step towards resolving a dark taxon and descriptions of three new species, pp. 108 in European Journal of Taxonomy 1031 on page 108, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1031.3133, http://zenodo.org/record/18157264
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