266) Provespa barthelemyi (du Buysson, 1905)

Vespa barthelemyi du Buysson, 1905 (1904) : 492, 618. Type data: Lectotype female, MNHN. Type locality: Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Provespa barthelemyi; van der Vecht, 1936: 165.

Material examined. INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh: CAU Campus Pasighat, 12.xi.2014, 2 ♀, Coll. Naveen Ku- mar . Assam: Guwahati, v.1962, 1 ♂, CIBC Collection; Khanapara Guwahati, 19-22.vi.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Palani Krishna.

Distribution. India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, Mizoram, Sikkim, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bangladesh; Bhutan; Cambodia; China; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam. (van der Vecht 1959 a, Archer 1989, Das & Gupta 1984, Das & Gupta 1989, Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Gusenleitner 2006, Girish Kumar & Nguyen 2010, Madl 2012, Mahmood et al. 2012, Nguyen & Kojima 2013, Pham & Li 2015, Dorji et al. 2017b, Girish Kumar & Sureshan 2019b).