54) Antepipona biguttata (Fabricius, 1787)

Vespa biguttata Fabricius 1787: 291 . Type data: Male, UZMC. Type locality: China.

Odynerus biguttatus: Schulz 1912: 100 .

Odontodynerus biguttatus: van der Vecht 1959 a [1958]: 241, fig 3.

Antepipona biguttata: van der Vecht & Fischer 1972: 71 .

Antepipona injucunda Giordani Soika 1973b: 104 . Type data: ZMB. Type locality: China.

Antepipona biguttata biguttata: Giordani Soika 1982a [1981]: 205, 207 (key), 221.

Antepipona biguttata takaoensis Giordani Soika 1982a [1981]: 207 (key), 224. Type data: Holotype female, MSNV. Type locality: Japan.

Antepipona excelsa keralensis Lambert 2004: 562–564 . Type data: Holotype female ZSIK. Type locality: Kerala, India.

Material examined. INDIA: Uttarakhand: Dehradun district, Kanwali, 25.vii.1987, 1 ♀, Coll. Mukesh, ZSIK Regd. No. ZSI/ WGRC /IR/INV.13009 .

Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand (new record), Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bhutan; China (including Taiwan); Korea; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam. (Giordani Soika 1982a [1981], Gusenleitner 2006 & 2011, Nguyen et al. 2018, Pham & Li 2015, Girish Kumar et al. 2016b, Pannure et al. 2016, Nidup et al. 2018).