Vespa mandarinia Smith, 1852

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274) Vespa mandarinia Smith, 1852

Vespa mandarinia Smith, 1852b: 38 . Type data: Female, BMNH. Type locality: “Tein-tung, near Ning-po-foo, amongst the mountains”, China.

Vespa magnifica Smith, 1852a: 45 .

Vespa japonica Radoszkowski, 1857: 410 .

Vespa bellona Smith, 1871a: 248 .

Vespa magnifica var. latilineata Cameron, 1903c: 278 .

Vespa magnifica var. nobilis Sonan, 1929: 137 & 140.

Vespa magnifica sonani Matsumura, 1930: 1 .

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bhutan; China (including Taiwan); Japan; Korea; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Russia; Sri Lanka; Thailand, Vietnam. ( van der Vecht 1959c, Das & Gupta 1984, Archer 1989, Das & Gupta 1989, Jonathan et al. 1996, Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Gusenleitner 2006, Kundu et al. 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006 b, Girish Kumar & Srinivasan 2010, Kundu et al. 2010, Barthélémy et al. 2014, Choi & Kwon 2015, Pham & Li 2015, Dorji et al. 2017b, Rafi et al. 2017, Girish Kumar & Sureshan 2019b).