276) Vespa orientalis Linnaeus, 1771

Vespa orientalis Linnaeus, 1771: 540 . Type data: Holotype female, LSL. Type locality: “Oriente”.

Vespa turcica Drury, 1773: 74 .

Vespa quadrupunctata Forskal, 1775: 84 .

Vespa crabro fusca Christ, 1791: 216 .

Vespa aegyptiaca Vallot, 1802: 170 .

Vespa nilotica Vallot, 1802: 170 .

Vespa jurinei de Saussure, 1854: 133 .

Vespa indica; Wroughton, 1889: 35.

Vespa orientalis arabica Giordani Soika, 1957: 482 .

Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Bahrain; Bosnia & Herzegovina; Bulgaria; China; Croatia; Cyprus; Egypt; Ethiopia; Georgia; Greece; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Italy; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Lebanon; Libya; Macedonia; Malta; Montenegro; Nepal; Oman; Pakistan; Romania; Russia; Saudi Arabia; Somalia; Syria; Tajikistan; Turkey; Turkmenistan; U.A.E.; Uzbekistan; Yemen. (van der Vecht 1959c, Das & Gupta 1984 & 1989, Archer 1989, Jonathan et al. 1996 & 2000a, Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Gusenleitner 2006, Girish Kumar & Srinivasan 2010, Kundu et al. 2010, Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014a, Girish Kumar et al. 2015c, Rafi et al. 2017, Sheikh et al. 2017, Fateryga 2018).