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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita) » Braconids and Ichneumons (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumon Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Cryptinae » Phygadeuontini » Gelis

Genus Gelis

Classification · Numbers · Remarks · Internet References
Flightless Wasp - Gelis Flightless Wasp - Gelis some kind of wingless wasp - Gelis Wingless Wasp - Gelis - female small wasp - Gelis - female Wingless Wasp, Gelis sp.? - Gelis - female Gelis? from spider egg sac - Gelis - female Gelis - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" (parasitic Apocrita))
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconids and Ichneumons)
Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumon Wasps)
Subfamily Cryptinae
Tribe Phygadeuontini
Genus Gelis
Numbers
Nearctica lists 82 species of Gelis.
Remarks
Many species of Gelis are wingless. Habits are diverse. Many are external parasites of Lepidoptera in cocoons, others are parasitic on Symphyta, spiders, Diptera larvae and pupae, or wood-boring Coleoptera larvae. Many are Hyperparasites.
Internet References
Texas A&M
Cedar Creek
Contributed by tom murray on 23 January, 2006 - 3:31pm
Additional contributions by JohnMaxwell22
Last updated 23 June, 2009 - 1:12am

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