Vespa vivax Smith 1870

Vespa vivax Smith Figs. 13d and 53 Vespa vivax Smith (in Horne and Smith), 1870: 190. Holotype female; India: Binsar, ‘ Binsur, Kumaon’ (LONDON-NHM). Vespa velutina var. mediozonalis Pérez, 1910: 14. Holotype female; India: Sikkim (PARIS). Vespa wilemani Meade-Waldo, 1911: 104. Holotype female; Taiwan: ‘ Formosa’ (LONDON-NHM). Distribution. India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, China (Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet), Taiwan. Discussion. Little is known about this south Asian Vespa species. In Taiwan, nests have been found in montane regions at elevations between 1,500 and 2,500 m (Archer 1994).Published as part of Smith-Pardo, Allan H., Carpenter, James M. & Kimsey, Lynn, 2020, The Diversity of Hornets in the Genus Vespa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Vespinae), Their Importance and Interceptions in the United States, pp. 1-27 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 4 (3) on page 23, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixaa006, http://zenodo.org/record/382692