Astata

{{Short description|Genus of wasps}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Astata male.jpg

| image_caption = Male

| taxon = Astata

| authority = Latreille, 1796 {{cite book |author=Toshko Ljubomirov & Erol Yildirim |title=Annotated catalogue of the Ampulicidae, Sphecidae, and Crabronidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Turkey |series=Volume 71 of Pensoft Series Faunistica |publisher=Pensoft Publishers |year=2008 |isbn=978-954-642-312-2 |chapter=Genus Astata Latreille, 1796 | pages=48–55 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi7dRCGk_e8C&pg=PA48}}

| type_species = Astata boops

| type_species_authority = (Schrank, 1871){{cite book | author1 = Richard Mitchell Bohart | author2 = Arnold S. Menke | year = 1976 | title = Sphecid Wasps of the World: A Generic Revision | url = https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FExMjuRhjpIC | publisher = University of California Press| isbn = 0520023188 | page = [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FExMjuRhjpIC/page/n46 42]}}

| subdivision = More than 80; see text

}}

Astata is a cosmopolitan genus of solitary predatory wasps in the family Astatidae.{{cite journal |first1=Manuela |last1=Sann |first2=Oliver |last2=Niehuis |first3=Ralph S. |last3=Peters |first4=Christoph |last4=Mayer |first5=Alexey |last5=Kozlov |first6=Lars |last6=Podsiadlowski |first7=Sarah |last7=Bank |first8=Karen |last8=Meusemann |first9=Bernhard |last9=Misof |first10=Christoph |last10=Bleidorn |first11=Michael |last11=Ohl |date=2018 |title=Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees. |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume= 18 |issue=71 |page=71 |doi=10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8 |doi-access=free|pmid=29776336 |pmc=5960199 |bibcode=2018BMCEE..18...71S }} They are known to prey on adults and nymphs of Pentatomidae.{{Cite journal | last = Evans | first = Howard | title = Further notes on the ethology of Astata (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) | journal =Journal of the New York Entomological Society | volume = 70 | issue = 1 | pages = 30–32 | date = March 1962 | jstor = 25005795}} 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|date=August 2024}}

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 (Schrank, 1781)
• Astata brevitarsus 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