Gelanes Horstmann, 1981

Khalaim, Andrey I. & Ruiz-Cancino, Enrique, 2020, Contribution to the taxonomy of Mexican Tersilochinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), with descriptions of five new species, ZooKeys 974, pp. 1-21 : 1

Genus Gelanes Horstmann, 1981

Type species.

Thersilochus fusculus Holmgren, 1860.

A moderately large Holarctic genus with 15 species in the Nearctic region (including two species from Mexico) and 20 species in the Palaearctic region. Parasitoids of xyelid sawflies ( Hymenoptera : Xyelidae : Xyela spp.) feeding in staminate cones on pines ( Pinaceae : Pinus spp.) ( Khalaim and Blank 2011).

Two species of Gelanes are known to occur in Mexico: G. horstmanni Khalaim from the State of Tlaxcala in Central Mexico ( Khalaim and Ruíz-Cancino 2017) and G. contrerasi (Khalaim & Ruíz-Cancino), comb. nov. The latter species was recently described as a species of Probles Förster from the State of Hidalgo in Central Mexico ( Khalaim and Ruíz-Cancino 2019).