''Exetastes'' is a genus of parasitoid

wasps 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 ...

belonging to the family

Ichneumonidae The Ichneumonidae, also known as ichneumon wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 25 ...

. The genus was first described by

Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst Johann Ludwig Christian Carl Gravenhorst (14 November 1777 – 14 January 1857), sometimes Jean Louis Charles or Carl, was a German entomologist, herpetologist, and zoologist. Life Gravenhorst was born in Braunschweig. His early interest in inse ...

in 1829. The genus has

cosmopolitan distribution In biogeography, a cosmopolitan distribution is the range of a taxon that extends across most or all of the surface of the Earth, in appropriate habitats; most cosmopolitan species are known to be highly adaptable to a range of climatic and en ...

. Species: * '' Exetastes adpressorius'' * '' Exetastes albiger'' * '' Exetastes albimarginalis'' * '' Exetastes atrator'' * '' Exetastes bimaculatus'' * '' Exetastes compressus'' * '' Exetastes crousae'' * '' Exetastes fornicator'' * '' Exetastes fukuchiyamanus'' * '' Exetastes ichneumoniformis'' * '' Exetastes ishikawensis''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q14522552 Ichneumonidae Ichneumonidae genera Taxa named by Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst