Gelis micrurus (Förster, 1850), Unreported

Verheyde, Fons, Hoekstra, Paul, Libert, Pierre-Nicolas, Meijer, Hilco, Ketelaere, Augustijn De, Vandaudenard, Thibaud, Belgers, Dick & Brosens, Edwin, 1880, Two hundred and five ichneumonid wasps reported for the first time in Belgium and the Netherlands (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 122, pp. 1-142 : 95

Gelis micrurus (Förster, 1850)

A very small species (± 2 mm) with apterous females. Generally it is predominantly black, but the first two antennal segments, the pronotum and the petiole are often (partly) orangish. Its head is broad and not or only weakly narrowed behind the eyes; its mesonotum and its propodeum are sloping upwards in lateral view and its thorax, propodeum and its first tergite are relatively short ( SCHWARZ, 2002). It is a known parasitoid of lycosid egg sacs.

First report for the Netherlands; unreported in Belgium.

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THE NETHERLANDS: • 1 ♀; Brielle (ZH); 51°54’53”N 4°10’03”E; 10/v/2010; T. van Haaren leg.; coll. MS; field observation; M. Schwarz det. (ObsID: 53398214) .