Illidops urgo ( Nixon, 1965 )

Illidops urgo ( Nixon, 1965)

Figs 59–60

Apanteles urgo Nixon, 1965: 182 View in CoL , fig. 204.

Other material examined

GREECE – Crete • 1 ♂; Canea; 6 Jul. [year unknown]; Biró leg.; J. Papp det. 1974; CNC, CNCHYM 01529 .

Species concept

Our species concept is based on our examination of habitus photos of the female holotype and the information available in Nixon (1965, 1976), Papp (1981), Kotenko (2007), and Tobias & Kotenko (1986). In addition, the species is morphologically very distinct and unlikely to be confused → ***.

Ecology / host information

Host unknown.

Distribution

PAL: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Mongolia, Russia (S), Slovakia, Turkey.

Molecular data

One sequence was retrieved via sequencing of a male specimen available at the CNC which was identified by Papp. When entering the sequence into the BOLD identification engine, the sequence most closely matches (maximum 94.7% barcode similarity) some sequences of specimens from Canada collected in British Columbia. These specimens cluster in BIN BOLD:ACL9661 but the single female specimen with photos available does not at all show any of the rather distinct coloration of I. urgo . First, it should be noted that the match between the low-quality sequence of CNCHYM01529 and the Canadian specimens is quite low and both might very well represent different species. Specimens of no other barcoding cluster were found to match the morphology of I. urgo . Secondly, the male specimen identified by Papp may very well be misidentified as sexual dimorphism in Illidops is quite strong. It might be the case that Papp identified the specimen based on its collection locality from Crete (Biró), which is where the holotype of I. urgo was collected. For another such case where Papp apparently matched male and female specimens mostly based on the collection locality, compare the remarks section for I. barcinonensis . Summarizing this, we currently cannot match this species reliably with any DNA sequences, but as reference our sequence of CNCHYM01529 mapped to ZSM-HYM-33161-C11 is provided as a fasta file in Supp. file 11. It should be noted that this sequence is of very poor quality and we are not certain about its accuracy and the accuracy of the identification of the male specimen as I. urgo .

Remarks

Holotype female, HNHM. Country of type locality: Greece.