Vespidae (Hymenoptera) of the Pothwar region of Punjab, Pakistan Author Siddiqui, Junaid Ali Author Bodlah, Imran Author Carpenter, James M. Author Naeem, Muhammad Author Ahmad, Munir Author Bodlah, Muhammad Adnan text Zootaxa 2015 3914 5 501 524 journal article 42237 10.11646/zootaxa.3914.5.1 741c4672-2d53-443c-8aef-eda67ff87d01 1175-5326 241739 64BD9B4F-97A5-4D1E-84FA-EF3947FAD569 Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758 ) ( Fig. 33 ) Sphex tropica Linnaeus, 1758 : 571 , “in Indiis” ( holotype ♀ Uppsala). Vespa cincta Fabricius, 1775 : 362 , [ India ] “ad littora Malabarica” (Kobenhavn), nom. praeocc., nec Vespa cincta Drury, 1773 , nec Vespa cincta De Geer 1773 . Vespa Crabro tenebrionis Christ, 1791 : 216 , pl. 18, fig. 4 (destroyed). Vespa deusta Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau, 1836 : 506 , ♀, “Patrie inconnue” ( lectotype Torino). Vespa unicolor Smith, 1863 : 44 , ♀, [ Indonesia ] “Bouru” (Oxford). Vespa eulemoides du Buysson, 1905 : 491 (key), 530, ♀, [ India ] “ Ile Andaman: port de Blair” (Genova). Vespa affinis var. trisignata Pérez, 1910 : 8 , ♀, [ Indonesia ] “Timor” (Paris). Vespa rubricans Pérez, 1910 : 10 , ♀, “Lindi ( Afrique orientale allemande )” ( lectotype Paris). Vespa tropica var. anthracina Bequaert, 1936 : 335 (key), 341, ♀, ♂, “ Philippine Islands : Sibuwan” ( holotype ♀ Washington). Vespa tropica var. haematodes Bequaert, 1936 : 336 (key), 338, ♀, ♂ - “ India : Kooloo” ( holotype ♀ Cambridge). Vespa tropica leefmansi van der Vecht, 1957 : 19 , ♀, ♂, [ Indonesia ] “Solok, Padang, Sumatra” ( holotype ♀ Leiden). Vespa tropica trimeres van der Vecht, 1957 : 19 (key), 22, ♀, [ Indonesia ] “Palu, West Celebes” (Leiden). Vespa tropica cebuana Kojima & Reyes, 1984 : 260 , ♀, [ Philippines ] “Cebu City” (Tokyo). Material examined. Attock, 20.x.12 , 1♀, 26.05.xii, 2♀; Rawalpindi, 23.xi.11 , 3♀, 1♂ , 07.vi.12 , 1♀; Chakwal, 16,vi,12, 2♀. Distribution. Pakistan , Afghanistan , Bhutan , Sri Lanka , Indonesia , Cambodia , China , Thailand , India , Papua New Guinea , Laos , Malaysia , Nepal , Philippines , Vietnam , Myanmar (Carpenter & Kojima 1997, Dvořák 2007 , Mahmood et al. 2012 ). Comments. Collected specimens were compared with Mahmood et al. (2012) . This species can be distinguished on the basis of followings characters: second metasomal segment completely orange and further segments are black. New locality records have been provided for this species.