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).