229) Parapolybia varia (Fabricius, 1787)

Vespa varia Fabricius, 1787: 293 . Type data: UZMC. Type locality: China.

Polistes varia; Fabricius, 1804: 279.

Polybia orientalis de Saussure, 1854: 208 .

Polybia artifex Smith, 1861: 90 .

Icaria quadrimaculata Cameron, 1900: 496 .

Icaria carinata Cameron, 1900: 499 .

Icaria wroughtoni Cameron, 1900: 500 .

Icaria fuscipennis Cameron, 1900: 501 .

Icaria cameroni Dalla Torre, 1904: 73 .

Icaria singapurensis Cameron, 1904: 120 .

Icaria carinifera Schulz, 1906: 328 .

Icaria annulipes Cameron, 1913: 115 .

Stelopolybia disticha du Buysson, 1913: 298 .

Material examined. INDIA: Mizoram: ICAR Complex Kolasib, 16-25.iii.2016, 1 ♀, Coll. Umeshkumar & Sandesh.

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram (new record), Punjab, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bhutan; China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan); Indonesia; Japan; Korea; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Philippines; Thailand; Vietnam. (van der Vecht 1966, Das & Gupta 1989, Jonathan et al. 1996, Gupta 1997, Jonathan et al. 2000a, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Gusenleitner 2006, Kundu et al. 2006, Kundu et al. 2010, Gusenleitner 2011, Nugroho et al. 2012, Nguyen & Kojima 2013, Barthélémy et al. 2014, Pham 2014, Pham & Li 2015, Dorji et al. 2017a, Girish Kumar & Sureshan 2019b).