270) Vespa bicolor Fabricius, 1787

Vespa bicolor Fabricius, 1787: 288 . Type data: UZMC. Type locality:“in China D. Pflug ”.

Vespa lutea Coquebert, 1804: 94 .

Vespa auraria var. citriventris du Buysson, 1905 (1904): 552.

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bhutan; Cambodia; China (including Taiwan); Japan; Laos; Myanmar; Nepal; Thailand; Vietnam. (Archer 1989, Das & Gupta 1984, Das & Gupta 1989, Jonathan et al. 1996, Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Gusenleitner 2006, Kundu et al. 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006 b, Girish Kumar & Srinivasan 2010, Kundu et al. 2010, Barthélémy et al. 2014, Dorji et al. 2017b, Girish Kumar & Sureshan 2019b).