Astata compta NURSE , 1909

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 : 101-102

Astata compta NURSE, 1909

Astata compta NURSE, 1909: 510 , ♀. Holotype ♀, India, Rajasthan, Mount Abu (BMNH). Astata absoluta NURSE, 1909: 511 , 3. Holotype 3, India, Rajasthan, Mount Abu (BMNH).

Synonymized with Astata compta by PULAWSKI 1975: 320. M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: IRAN: Fars, Larestan, Hormood Abbasi , 27°32'07''N ; 54°59'02''E ;

506 m, 29.05- 29.06.2015, 13, S. Rezaei (JIAU).

D e s c r i p t i o n: 3 (after JACOBS et al. 2023). 9 mm. Black, metasomal terga and sterna with light brown posterior margins. Head, mesosoma (except propodeal dorsum), metasomal tergum I and posterior margins of sterna II-V with remarkably long white setae (Fig. 19). Middle clypeal lobe distinctly protruding beyond lateral lobe, anterior margin straight. Clypeus and face densely punctate. Frons in front of anterior ocellus with shiny spot twice as wide as the ocellus. Antennomere III about 4× as long as apically wide. Antennomeres VII-IX slightly concave in profile, tyloids carinate with well developed proximal ivory tubercle. Pronotal collar smooth and shiny, with very scattered punctures. Mesoscutum densely punctate in proximal half, scattered punctate on distal surface. Prepectus coarsely reticulate, epimeron smooth and shiny. Mesopleuron smooth and shiny, scattered punctate, interspaces as wide as or wider than puncture diameter (Fig. 20). Distal sterna without typical hairbrush. Legs black with white setae, inner surface of foretibia and all tarsi brown. Mid- and hindcoxae unmodified, hindtrochanter on inner side with blunt tip. Hindfemur flattened basally. Forewing pale yellowish tinged, apical margin hyaline. Marginal cell about 3.3× as long as wide.

♀ (Original description by NURSE 1909). "Clypeus and front moderately closely punctured, the portions near the anterior ocellus and the margins of eyes shining, with scattered punctures, mesonotum, scutellum and postscutellum closely punctured, except the disc of the two former, which are shining and more or less impunctate; median segment rather short, strongly longitudinally striate and reticulate, roundly truncate at apex, the apical portion finely rugose; abdomen smooth, shining. Antennae pilose, the anterior ocellus scarcely longer than the others, the portion of the front below it without a furrow; abdomen nearly as long as the thorax and median segment, the segments very slightly depressed at apex, legs strongly spined. Black; the mandibles more or less red; pubescence grey, moderately dense; wings hyaline, forewing with a slight flavous tinge, and a very slight infuscescence about the radial cell; nervures bright testaceous, tegulae dark testaceous. Hab. Mt Abu. Length 8 mm."

D i s t r i b u t i o n: South Asia: India (type locality). Middle East: Iran ( JACOBS et al. 2023).