269) Vespa basalis Smith, 1852

Vespa basalis Smith, 1852a: 46 . Type data: Female, BMNH. Type locality: Nepal.

Vespa obliterata Smith, 1852a: 47 .

Material examined. INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh: CAU Campus Pasighat, 11.xi.2014, 1 ♀, Coll. Naveen. Uttarakhand: Bhimtal, 12.xi.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Ankita Gupta. Punjab: Patiala, 24.x.2017, 3 ♀, Coll. Ankita Gupta.

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Odisha, Punjab (new record), Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bhutan; China (including Taiwan); Indonesia; Laos; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Thailand; Vietnam. (van der Vecht 1959c, Archer 1989, Das & Gupta 1984, Das & Gupta 1989, Jonathan et al. 1996, Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Kundu et al. 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006 b, Girish Kumar & Srinivasan 2010, Kundu et al. 2010, Srinivasan & Girish Kumar 2013, Pham & Li 2015, Dorji et al. 2017b, Rafi et al. 2017, Girish Kumar & Sureshan 2019b).