Vespa dybowskii André

Figs. 11b, 11d, and 29

Vespa dybowskii ‘Rad. in litt’. André, 1884: 582. Holotype female; Russia: ‘ Sibérie’ (PARIS?).

Vespa dubowskii; Dalla Torre, 1904: 65. Misspelling of Vespa dybowskii André.

Vespa walkeri du Buysson, 1905 (1904): 539. Syntype female, male; China: ‘ Haï-ning’ (LONDON-NHM) .

Vespa dybowskii mutata Ma, 1937: 30 . Holotype male; China: ‘ Hangchow’ (HANGZHOU, destroyed?).

Distribution. Myanmar, China (Tibet, Zhejiang), Russia (Siberia, Primorsky), Korea, Japan.

Discussion. This species is relatively rare in collections. It is a nest parasite of Vespa crabro and V. simillima . Vespa dybowskii queens take over the nests of these species and use the host workers to raise their own brood (Martin et al. 2008)