Aptesis Explained

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.^[1]

Select species

About 74 species are described:^[2]

• 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^[3]
• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Aptesis Förster, 1850 . www.gbif.org . 29 December 2021 . en.
2. Book: Poole . R.W. . Gentili . P. . 1996 . Nomina Insecta Nearctica: A Check List of the Insects of North America. Vol 2: Hymenoptera, Mecoptera, Megaloptera, Neuroptera, Raphidioptera, Trichoptera . Rockville, Maryland . Entomological Information Services . 793 pp . 1-889002-02-X.
3. Li . Tao . Sheng . Mao-Ling . Sun . Shu-Ping . Chinese species of the genus Aptesis Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) parasitizing sawflies, with descriptions of three new species and a key to species . ZooKeys . 16 April 2013 . 290 . 55–73 . 10.3897/zookeys.290.4781 . free . 23794859 . 3677295 . 2013ZooK..290...55L .