Vespa multimaculata Perez 1910

Vespa multimaculata Pérez Figs. 4b, 12a, 12f, 38, and 39 Vespa annulata Smith, 1858: 116. Lectotype female (designated by Carpenter and Kojima 1997); Malaysia: Borneo: Sarawak (OXFORD). Nec Vespa annulata Rossi, 1790. Vespa multimaculata Pérez, 1910: 14. Lectotype female (designated by van der Vecht 1957); Brunei (PARIS). Vespa luctuosa var. malayana Bequaert, 1934: 4. Replacement name for Vespa annulata Smith. Vespa multimaculata pendleburyi van der Vecht, 1957: 43; Holotype female; Malaysia: ‘near Jitra, Kedah’, (LEIDEN). Distribution. Thailand; Laos; Malaysia: Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak, Sabah; Singapore; Indonesia: Sumatra, Borneo (KALIMANTAN); Brunei. Discussion. Vespa multimaculata is found in lowland and montane forests in Southeast Asia (Archer 1999, 2011), and is unlikely to disperse to temperate regions. Martin (1995) found nests in the ground beneath the roots of a tree.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 17, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixaa006, http://zenodo.org/record/382692