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 274) Vespa mandarinia Smith, 1852 Vespa mandarinia Smith, 1852b: 38 . Type data: Female, BMNH. Type locality: “Tein-tung, near Ning-po-foo, amongst the mountains”, China . Vespa magnifica Smith, 1852a: 45 . Vespa japonica Radoszkowski, 1857: 410 . Vespa bellona Smith, 1871a: 248 . Vespa magnifica var. latilineata Cameron, 1903c: 278 . Vespa magnifica var. nobilis Sonan, 1929: 137 & 140. Vespa magnifica sonani Matsumura, 1930: 1 . Distribution . India : Arunachal Pradesh , Assam , Himachal Pradesh , Manipur , Meghalaya , Mizoram , Sikkim , Uttarakhand , West Bengal . Elsewhere : Bhutan ; China (including Taiwan) ; Japan ; Korea ; Laos ; Malaysia ; Myanmar ; Nepal ; Pakistan ; Russia ; Sri Lanka ; Thailand , Vietnam . ( van der Vecht 1959c , Das & Gupta 1984 , Archer 1989 , Das & Gupta 1989 , Jonathan et al. 1996 , Carpenter & Kojima 1997 , Jonathan et al. 2000a , Jonathan & Kundu 2003 , Gusenleitner 2006 , Kundu et al. 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 , Girish Kumar & Sureshan 2019b).