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Gelis areator (Panzer, 1804)

Verheyde, Fons, De Ketelaere, Augustijn, Ørsnes, Geir, Pénigot, William, Storey, Malcolm, Österblad, Ika, Cameron, Al, Engan, Gunnar, Fiala, Miroslav, Lutz, Jonas, Parkhomenko, Maksym, Gokhman, Vladimir E, Dekoninck, Wouter, Cooleman, Stijn & Mees, Jan, 2025, First comprehensive catalogue of hibernating Darwin wasps in the Western Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 176441-e 176441 : e176441-

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e176441

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18083953

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scientific name

 Gelis areator (Panzer, 1804)
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Notes

One of the most common species of Ichneumonidae in Europe. This species is one of the rare examples where it has been proven that different hibernation strategies are used, presumably depending on the hosts, which are very diverse in this species. More specifically, both hibernation in the host case / cocoon and hibernation as free-living adult are known ( Schwarz and Shaw (1999); it is unclear from which country the valid records originate). Specimens have been found below bark, in fungi and in ‘ burrows in holly' ( Morley 1907).

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Belgium (1) *, Finland (1) *, the Netherlands (2) *, United Kingdom (3).

First record: II. 1899 ( Morley (1907), United Kingdom).

Hibernacula: DT (5), LV (1), O (3), U (2).

Sources: Morley (1907) [ Hemiteles aerator Panz. ], Schwarz and Shaw (1999); Unpublished: iNaturalist, Observation. org, Pers. obs.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

SubFamily

Phygadeuontinae

Genus

Gelis

Specimens