''Astata'' is a

cosmopolitan Cosmopolitan may refer to: Internationalism * World citizen, one who eschews traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship * Cosmopolitanism, the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community * Cosmopolitan ...

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of solitary predatory

wasp A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder ...

s in the family

Astatidae Astatidae is a cosmopolitan family of solitary wasps, peculiar for their males having very large compound eyes that broadly meet at the top of the head. The largest genus in this family is ''Astata'', with about half of more than 160 species in ...

. They are known to prey on adults and nymphs of

Pentatomidae Pentatomidae is a family of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, generally called shield bugs or stink bugs. Pentatomidae is the largest family in the superfamily Pentatomoidea, and contains around 900 genera and over 4700 species.Robert G ...

. ''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 ''Dryudella'' is a genus of wasps in the family Astatidae Astatidae is a cosmopolitan family of solitary wasps, peculiar for their males having very large compound eyes that broadly meet at the top of the head. The largest genus in this famil ...

'' have very large

compound eye A compound eye is a Eye, visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It may consist of thousands of ommatidium, ommatidia, which are tiny independent photoreception units that consist of a cornea, lens (anatomy), lens, and p ...

s that broadly meet at the top of the head. There are 94 species and subspecies of ''Astata'' worldwide, a few of which are listed here: *'' Astata affinis'' Vander Linden, 1829 *'' Astata apostata'' Mercet, 1910 *'' Astata bicolor'' Say, 1823 *''

Astata boops ''Astata boops'' is a Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of ...

'' (Schrank, 1781) *''

Astata brevitarsus ''Astata'' is a Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan genus of solitary predatory wasps in the family Astatidae. They are known to prey on adults and nymphs of Pentatomidae. ''Astata'' is the largest genus in this subfamily, and is identified b ...

'' Puławski, 1958 *'' Astata costae'' A. Costa, 1867 *'' Astata diversipes'' Puławski, 1955 *'' Astata gallica'' de Beaumont, 1942 *'' Astata graeca'' de Beaumont, 1965 *'' Astata leuthstromi'' Ashmead 1897 *'' Astata minor'' Kohl, 1885 *'' Astata occidentalis'' Cresson, 1881 *'' Astata quettae'' Nurse, 1903 *'' Astata rufipes'' Mocsáry, 1883 *'' Astata unicolor'' Say, 1824

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Genus ''Astata''

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Astatidae Apoidea genera Biological pest control wasps Cosmopolitan insects Hymenoptera of Asia Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille {{Apoidea-stub