  We study the mass spectra of D-wave excited $cs\bar{c}\bar{s}$ tetraquark
states with $J^{PC}=1^{++}$ and $1^{+-}$ in both symmetric
$\mathbf{6}_{cs}\otimes\bar{\mathbf{6}}_{\bar{c}\bar{s}}$ and antisymmetric
$\bar{\mathbf{3}}_{cs}\otimes\mathbf{3}_{\bar{c}\bar{s}}$ color configurations
by using the QCD sum rule method. We construct the D-wave diquark-antidiquark
type of $cs\bar{c}\bar{s}$ tetraquark interpolating currents in various
excitation structures with
$(L_\lambda,L_\rho\{l_{\rho_1},l_{\rho_2}\})=(2,0\{0,0\}),(1,1\{1,0\}),(1,1\{0,1\}),(0,2\{1,1\}),(0,2\{2,0\}),(0,2\{0,2\})$.
Our results support to interpret the recently observed $X(4685)$ resonance as a
D-wave $cs\bar{c}\bar{s}$ tetraquark state with $J^{PC}=1^{++}$ in the
$(2,0\{0,0\})$ or $(0,2\{2,0\})$ excitation mode, although some other possible
excitation structures cannot be excluded exhaustively within theoretical
errors. Moreover, our results provide a mass relation
$6_{\rho\rho}<3_{\lambda\lambda}<3_{\lambda\rho}<3_{\rho\rho}$ and
$6_{\rho\rho}<3_{\lambda\lambda}<6_{\lambda\lambda}<3_{\rho\rho}$ for the
positive and negative $\mathbb{C}$-parity D-wave $cs\bar{c}\bar{s}$
tetraquarks, respectively. We suggest searching for these possible D-wave
$cs\bar{c}\bar{s}$ tetraquarks in both the hidden-charm channels $J/\psi\phi$,
$\eta_c\phi$ and open-charm channels such as $D_s\bar{D}_s^*$,
$D_{s}\bar{D}_{s1}^*$ and so on.
