Vulgichneumon saturatorius is a species of parasitoid wasp in the ichneumonid family.

[3] The species is recorded widely across Europe from Ireland,[4] England and Spain in the west, Norway, Sweden and Finland in the north, as far south as Sicily and Sardinia, and east into Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, and into Asia with records from Kazakhstan and Pakistan.

[2] The species is found in woods and hedges, between April and September (in England).

[2] The species was named as Ichneumon saturatorius by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of his Systema Naturae in 1758.

A named subspecies is Vulgichneumon saturatorius albivalvus (Uchida, 1926).