Astata

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Astata
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Male
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Astatidae
Genus: Astata
Latreille, 1796  [1]
Type species
Astata boops
(Schrank, 1871) [2]
Species

More than 80; see text

Astata is a cosmopolitan genus of solitary predatory wasps in the family Astatidae. [3] They are known to prey on adults and nymphs of Pentatomidae. [4] Astata is the largest genus in this subfamily, and is identified by features of its wing venation. The males of this genus and the related genus Dryudella have very large compound eyes that broadly meet at the top of the head.[ citation needed ]

There are 87 known species and subspecies of Astata worldwide [5] , a few of which are listed here:

References

  1. Toshko Ljubomirov & Erol Yildirim (2008). "Genus Astata Latreille, 1796". Annotated catalogue of the Ampulicidae, Sphecidae, and Crabronidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Turkey. Volume 71 of Pensoft Series Faunistica. Pensoft Publishers. pp. 48–55. ISBN   978-954-642-312-2.
  2. Richard Mitchell Bohart; Arnold S. Menke (1976). Sphecid Wasps of the World: A Generic Revision. University of California Press. p.  42. ISBN   0520023188.
  3. Sann, Manuela; Niehuis, Oliver; Peters, Ralph S.; Mayer, Christoph; Kozlov, Alexey; Podsiadlowski, Lars; Bank, Sarah; Meusemann, Karen; Misof, Bernhard; Bleidorn, Christoph; Ohl, Michael (2018). "Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18 (71): 71. Bibcode:2018BMCEE..18...71S. doi: 10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8 . PMC   5960199 . PMID   29776336.
  4. Evans, Howard (March 1962). "Further notes on the ethology of Astata (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society . 70 (1): 30–32. JSTOR   25005795.
  5. "Number of Extant Species of Sphecidae sensu lato" (PDF). California Academy of Sciences Research Archive. California Academy of Sciences. May 6, 2025. Retrieved July 26, 2025. Archived June 30, 2025, at the Wayback Machine