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