272) Vespa ducalis Smith, 1852

Vespa ducalis Smith, 1852b: 39 . Type data: Female, BMNH. Type locality: Tieng-tung near Ning-po-foo, China. Vespa ducalis var. pulchra du Buysson, 1905 (1904): 519. Vespa matsumurai Sonan, 1935: 370 . Vespa esakii Sonan, 1935: 371 . Vespa tropica loochooensis Bequeart, 1936: 336 & 343. Vespa tropica pseudosoror van der Vecht, 1959c: 224 . Distribution. India: Meghalaya, Sikkim. Elsewhere: China (including Taiwan); Japan; Korea; Myanmar; Nepal;

Russia; Thailand; Vietnam. (Archer 1989, Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Nguyen et al. 2006 b, Girish Kumar &

Srinivasan 2010, Choi & Kwon 2015, Girish Kumar & Srinivasan 2010, Barthélémy et al. 2014).