An annotated distributional checklist of Vespidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea) of India Author Gawas, Sandesh M. Author Kumar, Girish Author Pannure, Arati Author Gupta, Ankita Author Carpenter, James M. text Zootaxa 2020 4784 1 1 87 journal article 21800 10.11646/zootaxa.4784.1.1 4d93f591-1785-4eea-9b96-49b782137498 1175-5326 3862319 8D684A40-4102-4592-9084-7589B0B40028 278) Vespa tropica ( Linnaeus, 1758 ) Sphex tropica Linnaeus, 1758: 1-517 . Vespa cincta Fabricius, 1775: 362 . Vespa eulemoides Buysson, 1905 (1904) : 491, 530. Type data: Female, MSNG. Type locality: Port Blair , Andaman Islands , India . Vespa tropica tropica ; Bequaert, 1936: 328 , key, des., fig. Vespa tropica haematodes Bequaert, 1936: 338 . Type data: Holotype female, MCZ. Type locality: Kullu , Himachal Pradesh , India . Vespa tropica leefmansi van der Vecht, 1957: 19 . Type data: Holotype female, RMNH. Type locality: Solok , Padang , Sumatra , Indonesia . Material examined . INDIA : Andhra Pradesh : Guntur , 13.xii.2006 , 1 ♀ , Coll. Naveen Kumar. Uttarakhand : Bhimtal , 13.xi.2016 , 2 ♀ , Coll. Ankita Gupta. Karnataka : Bengaluru , 11.xii.2014 , 1♀ , Coll. Umesh ; Nandi Hills , 17.viii.2017 , 2 ♀ , Coll. Sandesh Gawas ; Sangam , 13.vii.2018 , 1 ♀ , Coll. Ankita Gupta ; IIHR , 06.xi.2012 , 1 ♀ , Coll. P. M. Viyolla. Distribution . India :Andaman & Nicobar Islands , Andhra Pradesh (new record), Arunachal Pradesh , Assam , Bihar , Chhattisgarh , Goa, Haryana , Himachal Pradesh , Karnataka , Kerala , Madhya Pradesh , Odisha , Puducherry , Sikkim , Tamil Nadu , Tripura , Uttarakhand , West Bengal . Elsewhere : Bhutan ; Brunei ; Cambodia ; China ; Indonesia ; Laos ; Malaysia ; Myanmar ; Nepal ; Pakistan ; Philippines ; Singapore ; Sri Lanka ; Thailand ; Vietnam . ( van der Vecht 1959c , Das & Gupta 1984 & 1989 , Jonathan et al. 1996 , Jonathan & Kundu 2003 , Gusenleitner 2006 , Kundu et al. 2006 , Nguyen et al. 2006b , Girish Kumar & Sharma 2014b & 2015b, Dorji et al. 2017b , Sheikh et al. 2017 , Gawas et al. 2019 ).