286) Vespula orbata (du Buysson, 1902)

Vespa orbata du Buysson, 1902: 140 . Type data: Lectotype female, MNHN. Type locality: Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.

Vespa minuta Dover, 1925: 304 . Type data: Holotype female, BMNH. Type locality: “Tenasserim”, Myanmar.

Vespula nujiangensis Dong and Wang, 2004: 146 .

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: China; Laos; Myanmar; Nepal; Thailand; Vietnam. (Archer 1989, Das & Gupta 1989, Jonathan et al. 1996, Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Kundu et al. 2010, Nguyen & Kojima 2013, Pham & Li 2015, Girish Kumar & Carpenter 2018, Girish Kumar & Sureshan 2019b, Nguyen et al. 2019b).