282) Vespula flaviceps (Smith, 1870)

Vespa japonica de Saussure, 1858: 261 . Type data: Female, MHNG. Type locality: “ Japon ”.

Vespa flaviceps Smith, 1870: 174, 191.

Vespa “Lewisii, Sauss; Cameron, 1903c: 280.

Vespa saussurei Schulz, 1906: 231 .

Vespa karenkona Sonan, 1929: 137 (key), 148.

Vespa 4- maculata Sonan, 1929: 137 (key), 148.

Vespa vulgaris var. flavior Stolfa, 1934: 49

Vespula japonica pionganensis Giordani Soika, 1976: 287, 290.

Vespula gracilia Lee, 1986b: 201, 203, 206.

Material examined. INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Kullu, IARI Baragran Farm, 26.v.2016, 44 ♀, COll. Sandesh Gawas .

Distribution. India: Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal. Elsewhere: China (including Taiwan); Japan; Korea; Laos; Myanmar; Nepal; Pakistan; Russia; Thailand; Vietnam. (Das & Gupta 1984, Archer 1989, Das & Gupta 1989, Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Kundu et al. 2010, Barthélémy et al. 2014, Choi & Kwon 2015, Dorji et al. 2017 a, Rafi et al. 2017, Girish Kumar & Carpenter 2018, Nguyen et al. 2019b).