''Aptesis'' is a genus of parasitoid

wasp A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. Th ...

s belonging to the family

Ichneumonidae The Ichneumonidae, also known as the ichneumon wasps, Darwin wasps, or ichneumonids, are a family (biology), family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 2 ...

. The genus was first described by Förster in 1850 and has almost

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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

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q14512871 Ichneumonidae Ichneumonidae genera