Vespa affinis ( Linnaeus, 1764 )

Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, Zootaxa 4784 (1), pp. 1-87 : 63

267) Vespa affinis ( Linnaeus, 1764)

Apis affinis Linnaeus, 1764: 417 . Type data: Female, ZMUU. Type locality: “in Calidis regionibus” (Oriental Region).

Vespa indosinensis Perez, 1910:8 . Type data: Lectotype female, MNHN. Type locality: Annam.

Vespa affinis affinis ; Bequaert, 1936: 347.

Vespa affinis continentalis Bequaert, 1936: 350 . Type data: Holotype female, USNM. Type locality: Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

Material examined. INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh: Pasighat , 12.xi.2014, 1♀, Coll. Poorani. Kerala: Trivandrum , 23.v.2019, 2♀, Coll. M. Mohan. Karnataka: Bengaluru: NBAIR Hebbal , 16.x.2016, 3♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; Yelahanka , 20.i.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; IIHR, 6.v.2012, 1 ♀, Coll. P.M. Viyolla ; Hebbal Bengaluru ; 11.xii.2014, 1 ♀, Coll. Umesh ; Nandigrama , 6.v.2014, 1 ♀, Coll. Umeshkumar ; Savandurga , 4.x.2018, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas.

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bangladesh; Bhutan; China; Cambodia; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam. ( van der Vecht 1959c, Chan 1972, Das & Gupta 1984 & 1989, Jonathan et al. 1996, Gusenleitner 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006b, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014b, Girish Kumar et al. 2015c, Dorji et al. 2017b).