  In this article, we firstly derive two QCD sum rules QCDSR I and QCDSR II
which are respectively used to extract observable quantities of the ground
states and the first radially excited states of D-wave vector $\rho$ and $\phi$
mesons. In our calculations, we consider the contributions of vacuum
condensates up to dimension-7 in the operator product expansion. The predicted
masses for $1^{3}D_{1}$ $\rho$ meson and $2^{3}D_{1}$ $\phi$ meson are
consistent well with the experimental data of $\rho$($1700$) and
$\phi$($2170$). Besides, our analysis indicates that it is reliable to assign
the recent reported $Y$($2040$) state as the $2^{3}D_{1}$ $\rho$ meson.
Finally, we obtain the decay constants of these states with QCDSR I and QCDSR
II. These predictions are helpful not only to reveal the structure of the newly
observed $Y$($2040$) state but also to establish $\phi$ meson and $\rho$ meson
families.
