Astata rubriventris JACOBS, REZAEI & FALLAHZADEH, 2023

Hans-J, 2025, Astata LATREILLE, 1796 (Hymenoptera, Astatidae) from the Palearctic region with descriptions of nine new taxa and a key to species, Linzer biologische Beiträge 57 (1), pp. 71-168 : 139

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16956868
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scientific name	Astata rubriventris JACOBS, REZAEI & FALLAHZADEH, 2023
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Astata rubriventris JACOBS, REZAEI & FALLAZADEH, 2023: 560 , ♀. Holotype ♀, Iran, Fars, Teyhon at 29.36.37N 51.38.08E (ZSBS).

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d IRAN: Holotype ♀, Fars, Teyhon, 29°36'37''N 52°38'08''E, 1491 m, 16-20.V.2014, F. Farzaneh (ZSM). Paratype ♀. Dasht-e Arzahn, 29°39'39''N 51°59'03''E, 2029 m, 24-30.IV.2018, S. Rezaei (ZSBS).

D e s c r i p t i o n:J. Unknown.

♀. 10 mm. Head and mesosoma black. Metasoma red, terga and sterna with brown posterior margins, sometimes reduced on basal segments; pygidial plate brown. Mandible black, more or less reddish mesally. Legs black. Face and frons with white setae. Clypeus shiny, with scattered punctures, anterior margin of clypeal lamella straight or weakly tridentate. Antennomeres I-II on inner side with black bristles, III about 4× as long as apically wide. Frons in front of and beside anterior ocellus as well as area between posterior ocelli densely punctate ( Fig. 100 View Figs 95-106 ). Vertex and gena smooth and shiny, with isolated punctures and white setae. Pronotal collar densely punctate. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum smooth and shiny, the former anteriorly densely punctate, the latter densely punctate laterally. Mesopleuron with strong punctures, interspaces shiny. Propodeal dorsum coarsely reticulate, shiny; lateral surface of propodeum proximally smooth and dull, distally irregularly and coarsely wrinkled; declivity wrinkled. Stigmal area of propodeum obtuse-angled. Mesosoma except dorsal area of propodeum with white setae. Metasomal sterna, coxae, trochanters and femora with white setae. Forebasitarsus with four rake spines, ventral surface with 15-17 undulating spines, with fine setae between the spines in proximal third only. Midbasitarsus ventrally slightly concave, with long spines basally and short ones distally ( Fig. 140 View Figs 131-140 ). Forewing hyaline, with brown spot outside veins. Marginal cell about 3× as long as wide.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Middle East: Iran (type locality).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Crabronidae
Genus	Astata