Gelanes clavulatus Khalaim & Blank, 2011

Khalaim, Andrey I., 2018, Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Israel. Part 1, Israel Journal of Entomology (Oxford, England) 48 (2), pp. 113-121 : 118-119

Gelanes clavulatus Khalaim & Blank, 2011

( Figs 10, 11)

Remarks: Males of this species differ from those of G. simillimus by the dark face (often yellow or pale brown in G. simillimus ), entirely fuscous antenna (usually pale proximally in G. simillimus ), strongly darkened legs, mesopleuron with more or less distinct foveate groove/area with wrinkles and/or strong granulation (foveate groove absent or represented by weakly granulate area in G. simillimus ), and second flagellomere very short, conspicuously shorter and smaller than first and third flagellomeres (more or less equal in length to first and third flagellomeres in G. simillimus ).

Material examined: 1♀ 3♂, Even Yizhaq (Gal'ed), 20.ii.2002, L. Friedman (1♂ without metasoma; 1♀ 2♂ TAU, 1♂ ZISP) ; 2♂, Bet She'arim , ex gall on Quercus ithaburensis , 20.ii.2002, L. Friedman

( TAU, ZISP); 2♀ 2♂, Bar Giyyora, 31°43'54"N 35°04'36"E, 880 m, 8–9.iii.2016, M. Mostovski, yellow pan traps (1♀ 2♂ TAU, 1♀ in ZISP). Note: Two males in the examined material are labelled as reared from a gall on Quercus Decne ( Fagaceae ). It is rather odd and probably wrong host record because all other reports of Gelanes species were only from xyelid sawflies ( Xyelidae ) (see Khalaim & Blank 2011; Horstmann 2013).

Distribution: Austria, Croatia, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Israel.

Biology: Reared from Xyela sp. ( Xyelidae ) on Pinus nigra Aiton in Greece; collected on and reared from P. halepensis Mill. in Croatia; reared from Xyela curva Benson and X. graeca Stein on P. nigra in Austria ( Khalaim & Blank 2011).