Gelis agilis

{{Short description|Species of wasp}}

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| genus = Gelis

| species = agilis

| authority = (Fabricius 1775)

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Gelis agilis is a tiny wingless hyperparasitoid wasp that attacks the parasitoid wasp Cotesia glomerata and other parasitoids, like Dinocampus coccinellae. It reproduces asexually, with adult females feeding on their hosts' hemolymph in order to create eggs.{{cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Cong |last2=Gols |first2=Rieta |last3=Biere |first3=Arjen |last4=Harvey |first4=Jeffrey A. |title=Differential effects of climate warming on reproduction and functional responses on insects in the fourth trophic level |journal=Functional Ecology |date=April 2019 |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=693–702 |doi=10.1111/1365-2435.13277 |language=en |issn=0269-8463|doi-access=free |hdl=1871.1/39c69bcc-84a5-4ac6-ba6b-79d4f922e6bf |hdl-access=free }} It looks superficially like an ant and also produces ant-like alarm pheromones.{{Cite journal|last1=Malcicka|first1=Miriama Malcicka|last2=Bezemer|first2=T. Martijn|date=2015|others=Bertanne Visser, Mark Bloemberg, Charles J. P. Snart, Ian C. W. Hardy & Jeffrey A. Harvey|title=Multi-trait mimicry of ants by a parasitoid wasp|journal=Scientific Reports|volume=5|page=8043 |doi=10.1038/srep08043 |pmid=25622726 |pmc=4306968 }}