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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps » Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae » Crabronidae » Astatinae » Astata

Genus Astata

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited
Crabronid - Astata unicolor - male Sqaure headed wasp? Maybe in the Trillini tribe - Astata - male Wasp ID Request - Astata unicolor - male Wasp ID Request - Astata - male Astata - male Wasp? - Astata - male Black wasp - Astata - female Unknown Fly (?) - Astata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Apoid Wasps (Apoidea)- traditional Sphecidae)
Family Crabronidae
Subfamily Astatinae
Genus Astata
Explanation of Names
Astata Latreille 1796
Greek astatos 'restless'
Numbers
14 spp. in our area(1), 80 spp. worldwide(2)
Size
10-16 mm
Identification
Compact sphecids, with large eyes. Males have "wrap-around" (holoptic) eyes. Two widespread eastern species: A. unicolor is all black, A. bicolor has red abdomen, though there may be sexual differences in coloration as well.
Food
nymphal Heteroptera, esp. stink bugs (Pentatomidae)(3)
Life Cycle
Nest in burrows in soil, each burrow with several chambers(4)
Works Cited
1.Apoidea (Bees; Sphecoid wasps) on discoverlife.org
2.Catalog of Sphecidae sensu lato
3.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
4.Wasp Farm
By Howard Ensign Evans
Contributed by Richard Leung on 7 October, 2004 - 7:44pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 22 July, 2011 - 1:22pm

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