Illidops cloelia ( Nixon, 1965 )

Höcherl, Amelie, 2025, Revision of Holarctic Illidops Mason (Hymenoptera, Braconidae): A first step towards resolving a dark taxon and descriptions of three new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 1031, pp. 1-121 : 30-33

Illidops cloelia ( Nixon, 1965)

Fig. 16

Apanteles cloelia Nixon, 1965: 183–184 , fig. 211.

Other material examined

GERMANY – Bavaria • 1 ♀; Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Zugspitze, Platt ; 47.407° N, 11.008° E; 2005 m a.s.l.; 18 Jul.–2 Aug. 2018; D. Doczkal and J. Voith leg.; Malaise trap; bulk ID: dv.zugsp5.3; obere Grenze Latschengebüsch, kleinräumiges Mosaik mit Zwergstrauchheide und (sub-)alpinen Rasen; SNSB-ZSM, ZSM-HYM-42389-G08 .

Species concept

The type was examined by Fernandez-Triana et al. (2020). Our species concept is based on the information available in Nixon (1965, 1976) and Papp (1981) and the specimens we identified as this species based on morphology, including their associated molecular data. This species is morphologically rather unique → **.

Ecology / host information

Host unknown.

Distribution

PAL: Austria, Germany, Hungary, Korea, Russia (E, NC), Slovakia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, former Yugoslavia.

Molecular data

Molecular data: BOLD:AEO8223.

Remarks

Holotype female, NHMUK. Country of type locality: Switzerland. For more details see Höcherl et al. (2024). A male specimen of I. cloelia identified by Nixon should be stored at SNSB-ZSM as part of the Haeselbarth collection; however we were unable to locate or examine it as the collection underwent construction during the time of this project.