Aptesis

Aptesis is a genus of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae. The genus was first described by Arnold Förster in 1850 and has almost cosmopolitan distribution.

Select species
About 74 species are described:


 * Aptesis acuminata (Kriechbaumer, 1899)
 * Aptesis albibasalis (Uchida, 1930)
 * Aptesis albidipes (Walker, 1874)
 * Aptesis albifrons Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis alpestris Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis alpicola (Habermehl, 1935)
 * Aptesis alpineti (Roman, 1913)
 * Aptesis anaulus Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis assimilis (Gravenhorst, 1829)
 * Aptesis atrox Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis breviaria Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis catulus Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis chosensis (Uchida, 1931)
 * Aptesis concolor Ruthe, 1859
 * Aptesis contigua (Roman, 1909)
 * Aptesis corniculata Sheng, 2003
 * Aptesis cretata (Gravenhorst, 1829)
 * Aptesis elongata Li & Sheng, 2013
 * Aptesis erratica (Holmgren, 1869)
 * Aptesis exannulata (Strobl, 1901)
 * Aptesis exquisita (Schmiedeknecht, 1905)
 * Aptesis fastigata Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis femoralis (Thomson, 1883)
 * Aptesis flagitator (Rossi, 1794)
 * Aptesis flavifaciator Aubert, 1968
 * Aptesis flavitrochanterus Watanabe & Taniwaki, 2018
 * Aptesis fuscitibia Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis gracilis Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis grandis Sheng, 1998
 * Aptesis gravipes (Gravenhorst, 1829)
 * Aptesis habermehli Sawoniewicz, 2003
 * Aptesis hannibal (Smits van Burgst, 1913)
 * Aptesis hypocrita (Cameron, 1897)
 * Aptesis improba (Gravenhorst, 1829)
 * Aptesis incompta Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis inculta Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis jejunator (Gravenhorst, 1807)
 * Aptesis latiannulata (Cameron, 1904)
 * Aptesis leucotarsus (Gravenhorst, 1829)
 * Aptesis lissopleuris Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis melana Li & Sheng, 2013
 * Aptesis messor Jonaitis, 1981
 * Aptesis minutor Aubert, 1968
 * Aptesis nigricollis (Thomson, 1883)
 * Aptesis nigricoxa Li & Sheng, 2013
 * Aptesis nigritula (Thomson, 1885)
 * Aptesis nigrocincta (Gravenhorst, 1815)
 * Aptesis nordlandiae (Strand, 1913)
 * Aptesis ochrostoma (Thomson, 1897)
 * Aptesis opaca (Cushman, 1937)
 * Aptesis opposita (Kriechbaumer, 1902)
 * Aptesis orbitalis (Thomson, 1883)
 * Aptesis pallidinervis (Cameron, 1904)
 * Aptesis pectoralis (Thomson, 1888)
 * Aptesis perversa (Kriechbaumer, 1893)
 * Aptesis plana (Kriechbaumer, 1893)
 * Aptesis polita Bauer, 1985
 * Aptesis pugnax (Hartig, 1838)
 * Aptesis pulchripes (Cameron, 1903)
 * Aptesis punjabensis (Gupta, 1955)
 * Aptesis rufifemur (Kiss, 1924)
 * Aptesis rufigastra (Tosquinet, 1896)
 * Aptesis scabra Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis scotica (Marshall, 1868)
 * Aptesis scutellator Aubert, 1968
 * Aptesis segnis (Provancher, 1877)
 * Aptesis senicula (Kriechbaumer, 1893)
 * Aptesis silvatica (Habermehl, 1935)
 * Aptesis subguttata (Gravenhorst, 1829)
 * Aptesis subnigrocinctus Jonaitis, 1981
 * Aptesis terminata (Gravenhorst, 1829)
 * Aptesis varia (Pfankuch, 1921)
 * Aptesis verrucata Townes, 1962
 * Aptesis yosemite Townes, 1962