Revision of Holarctic Illidops Mason (Hymenoptera, Braconidae): A first step towards resolving a dark taxon and descriptions of three new species Author Höcherl, Amelie 0009-0007-4211-7468 SNSB - Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstrasse 21, 81247 Munich, Germany. amelie.hoecherl@gmail.com Author Kaliuzhna, Maryna 0000-0002-9265-0195 Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo 15, 01054, Kyiv, Ukraine. kaliuzhna.maryna@gmail.com Author Raupach, Michael J. 0000-0001-8299-6697 SNSB - Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Münchhausenstrasse 21, 81247 Munich, Germany. raupach@snsb.de Author Fernandez-Triana, Jose L. 0000-0003-0425-0309 Canadian National Collection of Insects, 960 Carling Ave., Ottawa, ON K 1 A 0 C 6 Canada. cnc.braconidae@gmail.com text European Journal of Taxonomy 2025 2025-12-09 1031 1 121 https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/3133/13943 journal article 313616 10.5852/ejt.2025.1031.3133 ad99957d-a0f6-487c-90f9-e4b88d427b8d 2118-9773 18157264 A71C2271-2B5A-431C-ACFB-A1F2F6FA5A89

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.