268) Vespa analis Fabricius, 1775

Vespa analis Fabricius, 1775: 363 . Type data: BMNH. Type locality: Probably Java. Vespa crabros phinx Christ, 1791: 217 . Vespa tyrannica Smith, 1857: 119 . Vespa japonica Smith, 1868: 279 . Vespa parallela André, 1884: lxi. Vespa insularis Dalla Torre, 1894: 147 . Vespa tridentata Cameron, 1903c: 278 . Vespa nigrans du Buysson, 1903: 175 . Vespa parallela var, Biroi du Buysson, 1905 (1904): 487 & 513. Vespa analis var. tenebrosa du Buysson, 1905 (1904): 516. Vespa analis var. (or subsp.) barbouri Bequaert, 1939: 38 & 40. Vespa analis var. (or subsp.) kuangsiana Bequaert, 1939: 38 & 42. Vespa analis eisa Yamane, 1987: 628 & 631. Vespa analis nagatomii Yamane, 1987: 628 & 632. Vespa maguanensis Dong, 2001: 82 . Vespa hekouensis Dong and Wang, 2003: 407 . Distribution. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand,

West Bengal. Elsewhere: Bhutan; China (including Taiwan); Indonesia; Japan; Laos; Malaysia; Myanmar; Ne-

pal; Pakistan; Russia; Singapore; South Korea; Thailand; Vietnam. (van der Vecht 1959c, Archer 1989, Das & Gupta 1984 & 1989, Jonathan et al. 1996 & 2000a, Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Jonathan & Kundu 2003, Gusenleitner 2006, Nguyen et al. 2006 b, Girish Kumar & Srinivasan 2010, Kundu et al. 2010, Barthélémy et al. 2014, Choi & Kwon 2015, Pham & Li 2015, Dorji et al. 2017b, Rafi et al. 2017).