Vespa vivax Smith 1870

280) Vespa vivax Smith, 1870 Vespa vivax Smith, 1870: 190. Type data: Female, BMNH. Type locality: Binsar, Uttarakhand, India. Vespa velutina var. mediozonalis Perez, 1910: 14. Vespa wilemani Meade-Waldo, 1911a: 104. Distribution. India: Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand. Elsewhere: Bhutan; China (including Taiwan); Myanmar; Nepal; Thailand. (van der Vecht 1959c, Das & Gupta 1984, Archer 1989, Das & Gupta 1989, Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Gusenleitner 2006, Girish Kumar & Srinivasan 2010, Kundu et al. 2010, Dorji et al. 2017 a, Rafi et al. 2017).Published as part of Gawas, Sandesh M., Kumar, Girish, Pannure, Arati, Gupta, Ankita & Carpenter, James M., 2020, An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India, pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 4784 (1) on pages 66-67, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/386231