Vespa affinis

267) Vespa affinis (Linnaeus, 1764) Apis affinis Linnaeus, 1764: 417. Type data: Female, ZMUU. Type locality: “in Calidis regionibus” (Oriental Region). Vespa indosinensis Perez, 1910:8. Type data: Lectotype female, MNHN. Type locality: Annam. Vespa affinis affinis; Bequaert, 1936: 347. Vespa affinis continentalis Bequaert, 1936: 350. Type data: Holotype female, USNM. Type locality: Mangalore, Karnataka, India. Material examined. INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh: Pasighat, 12.xi.2014, 1♀, Coll. Poorani. Kerala: Trivandrum, 23.v.2019, 2♀, Coll. M. Mohan. Karnataka: Bengaluru: NBAIR Hebbal, 16.x.2016, 3♂, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; Yelahanka, 20.i.2017, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas; IIHR, 6.v.2012, 1 ♀, Coll. P.M. Viyolla; Hebbal Bengaluru; 11.xii.2014, 1 ♀, Coll. Umesh; Nandigrama, 6.v.2014, 1 ♀, Coll. Umeshkumar; Savandurga, 4.x.2018, 1 ♀, Coll. Sandesh Gawas. Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bangladesh; Bhutan; China; Cambodia; Indonesia; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; Singapore; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam. (van der Vecht 1959c, Chan 1972, Das & Gupta 1984 & 1989, Jonathan et al. 1996, Gusenleitner 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006b, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014b, Girish Kumar et al. 2015c, Dorji et al. 2017b).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 page 63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/386231