Vespa orientalis Linnaeus, 1771

Sheikh, Altaf Hussain, Kumar, P. Girish, Thomas, Moni & Bhandari, Rita, 2017, Taxonomic studies on Vespid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Vespidae) of Dumna Nature Park, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (3), pp. 198-198 : 198-

8. Vespa orientalis Linnaeus, 1771

1771. Vespa orientalis Linnaeus , 540. Holotype female, “Oriente” ( LS).

Diagnosis: Sterile female: Clypeus rather flat and elongate, as wide as long or little longer, with scattered moderate sized punctures, in females apical margin emarginate with rounded lateral lobes. Hairs on head and thorax short, sparse, stiff and bristle- like; gaster almost hairless dorsally.

Colour Description: Body brown with clypeus, frons, scape ventrally, apical margin of T1 narrowly, T3 & T4 almost entirely, posterolateral corner of S2, S3 almost entirely and S4 partly yellow. T3 & T4 with blackish brown spot laterally. Yellow marks on T1 emarginate medially; T3 with median triangular blackish mark basally.

Size (H+M+T1+T2): 17- 22 mm.

Material examined: INDIA: Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur district, Dumna Nature Park , 2♀, 28.x.2015, Coll. Altaf Hussain Sheikh.

Distribution: India: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Bahrain, Bulgaria, China, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Malta, Nepal, Oman, Palestine, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, U.A.E., Uzbekistan, Yemen.