Cotesia icipe is a parasitoid species of wasp of the genus Cotesia.

Found in tropical Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, it was first discovered as a parasitoid of the Lepidopterans Spodoptera littoralis and beet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua).

Therefore it is now being studied as a possible biological control of Lepidopteran pests of amaranth crops in those areas.

[1] Kenya (Yatta Constituency, Mwea Constituency, Kitengela, Thika,[1] and Machakos),[2] Madagascar,[1] Saudi Arabia,[1] South Africa,[1] Yemen,[1] and Ethiopia (Awasa (Hawassa), Jimma, and Awash-Melkasa).

[2] This Ichneumonoidea-related article is a stub.