Illidops terrestris Wharton, 1983

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 : 91-95

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.1031.3133
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17922388
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scientific name	Illidops terrestris Wharton, 1983
status

Treatment

Figs 54–55

Illidops terrestris Wharton, 1983: 667–670 , figs 1–4.

Type material

Paratypes

UNITED STATES – California • 1 ♀; Thousand Palms ; 21 Mar. 1955; W.R.M. Mason leg.; CNC, CNCHYM 01520 . – Florida • 1 ♀; Oneco ; 4 Jun. 1953; J.C. Martin leg.; CNC, CNCHYM 01521 . – Texas • 1 ♀; Kerrville ; 19 Jun. 1959; W.R.M. Mason leg.; CNC, CNCHYM 01522 • 1 ♀; same data as for preceding; 17 Jun. 1959; CNC, CNCHYM 01523 .

Species concept

Our species concept is based on our examination of habitus photos of the holotype (available via the Smithsonian Website), our examination of a female paratype stored at the CNC, and the information available in Wharton (1983). → ***.

Ecology / host information

Parts of the type series (including holotype) reared from Pyralidae : Elasmopalpus lignosellus (Zeller, 1848) . For more details see Wharton (1983).

Distribution

NEA: United States (CA, FL, GA, TX).

Molecular data

Currently, only a very short fragment of COI (164 bp) of a female paratype CNCHYM 01520 stored at the CNC is available for this species. When blasted, it matches a public sequence with the Specimen-ID BIOUG02764-D01 in BIN BOLD:ABY3260 at a similarity of 99.33%. Specimen BIOUG02764-D01 was collected in Florida and all four sequences in the BIN were obtained from specimens collected in the United States, which matches the known distribution range of the species. We consider it likely that these specimens are representatives of I. terrestris but have not seen the material to confirm our hypothesis.

Remarks

Holotype female, USNM. Country of type locality: United States. The type was examined by Fernandez-Triana et al. (2020). This species was reared from a Pyralidae host, Elasmopalpus lignosellus , associated with peanut ( holotype) and from Elasmopalpus sp. associated with cowpea (some paratypes).