Astata pontica PULAWSKI, 1958

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 : 134

Astata pontica PULAWSKI, 1958

Astata pontica PULAWSKI, 1958a: 171 , ♀, 3. Holotype ♀, Bulgaria, mouth of Ropotamo River (CAS). Additional description: PULAWSKI (1959: 378).

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: BULGARIA: Lozenec , 15 m, 42°13'N 27°47'E, 16.06.2008, 733, M. & Z. Halada ( BOL) ; Nessebar , 14.08.1982, 13, Padr ( BOL) ; Ropotamo , 07.07.1977, 13, Karas ( BOL) ; Slancev Brjag, 07.1964, 13, Hrubant , 20.07- 05.08.1965, 433, 2♀♀, 28.06- 14.07.1971, 233, Padr, 07.1966, 13, Polasek ( BOL) ; Sozopol , 30.07.1978, 13, Hoffer ( BOL) . GREECE: Greece , Peloponnese, 12 km S of Andritsena, 37°24' 21°50'E, 500 m, 28.08.2019, 1♀, J. Halada ( BOL) ; Stomio, Pinios-Lagune, Sandgrube , 28.07.1995, 13, Brechtel ( SE) . HUNGARY: Örkeny Pustavacz , 47.1562°N 19.4904°E, 05.06.2018, 13, M. Halada ( BOL) .

D e s c r i p t i o n: 3. 8-10 mm. Head and mesosoma black. Mandible black with reddish middle, simple. Metasomal terga I-II red, III red with black impressed posterior margin; sterna I and III red, II red with large black spot. Legs black, tarsi brown. Clypeus and frons densely punctate. Middle clypeal lobe distinctly protruding beyond lateral lobe, anterior margin straight. Face with appressed white setae. Antennomeres I-I on inner side with white setae, III about 4× as long as apically wide; tyloids of VI-XII with yellow tubercles proximally and distally, in profile distally enlarged; VII-IX about 1.5× as long as maximal width. Gena smooth and shiny, with very fine punctures and white setae. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum densely punctate, the latter with smooth and shiny anteromedian spot. Mesopleuron dull, very densely punctate. Propodeal dorsum dull, finely reticulate. Declivity and lateral surface dull, densely punctate. Mesosoma except dorsal surface of propodeum with white setae. Metasomal tergum I and sterna with long white setae. Central setae of metasomal hairbrush very short, separated from the long lateral setae by glabrous narrow stripe. Lateral setae of hairbrush longer than those of sternum II. Midcoxa strongly concave, lobular widened apically (Fig. 24). Hindcoxa with short apical spine, longitudinal keel and ventral longitudinal impression (Fig. 24), hindtrochanter with triangular apical process. Coxae, trochanters and femora with white setae. Forewing hyaline, marginal cell about 3.7-4.0× as long as apically wide.

♀. 8-10 mm. Head and mesosoma black. Metasomal segments I-III red, IV-V dark brown, VI red. Coxae and trochanters black, femora black with red apex, tibiae and tarsi red. Anterior clypeal margin convex. Clypeus, frons and area between posterior ocelli densely punctate. Face and frons with white setae. Vertex and gena smooth and shiny, with scattered punctures and white setae. Head behind eyes strongly narrowed ( Fig. 90 ). Antennomere III about 2.3× as long as apically wide. Mesosoma except propodeal dorsum with white setae. Stigmal area of propodeum slightly convex. Metasomal tergum I and sterna with white setae. Pygidial plate wide, with straight lateral margin and pale marginal bristles. Fore- and hindfemur with long white setae, longest ventral setae of hindfemur about as long as maximal femur diameter. Hindcoxa outside impressed. Forebasitarsus ventrally with nine or ten spines successively longer to the apex of tarsomere, with fine setae over the entire length. Midbasitarsus ventrally with continuously prolonged spines.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Europe: Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece. Russia: European part ( NEMKOV 2017). Middle East: Türkiye ( KAPLAN & YILDIRIM 2021).

Figures

Figs 85-94. Figs 85-87: pygidial plate ♀: (85) A. diversipes, (86) A. rufipes, (87) A. apostata. Figs 88-89: frons ♀: (88) A. kashmirensis, (89) A. minor. Fig. 90: A. pontica ♀: vertex. Figs 91-92: A. quettae ♀: (91) head frontal, (92) forewing. Figs 93-94: head frontal ♀: (93) A. laeta, (94) A. radialis.