59. Vespa bicolor Fabricius, 1787

Vespa bicolor Fabricius, 1787: 288 . Syntypes, sex not stated; China (COPENHAGEN).

Vespa lutea Coquebert, 1804: 94 .

Vespa auraria var. citriventris du Buysson, 1905 (1904): 552.

Distribution: Bhutan: Zhemgang, Samdrup Jongkhar, Tsirang (Dorji, Gyeltshen, et al. 2017; Dorji, Klein, et al. 2017a). Elsewhere: India; Nepal; China; Myanmar; Vietnam; Laos; Cambodia; Thailand; Spain; France; Portugal; Belgium; Italy; Germany; the Netherlands; Great Britain (Archer 1989, 1994, 2012; Barthélémy et al. 2014; Carpenter & Kojima 1997; Castro 2019; Daglio 2019; Das & Gupta 1983, 1989; Dorji, Gyeltshen, et al. 2017; Dorji, Klein, et al. 2017a; Gawas et al. 2020; Ghosh et al. 2020; Gusenleitner 2006, 2011; Kumar & Srinivasan 2010; Nguyen, Saito, et al. 2006; Smith-Pardo et al. 2020; Sora et al. 2019).